Why Apple’s New Health Studies Are So Groundbreaking

And how you can be a part of them.

Today Apple announced some game-changing news on health care research: the launch of three studies — the Apple Women’s Health Study, the Apple Heart and Movement Study and the Apple Hearing Study — that anybody with an iPhone and/or an Apple Watch will be able to participate in.

Last week I got a chance to talk with Dr. Sumbul Desai, Apple’s VP of Health, and Professor Michelle Williams, Dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health, about what all three studies could mean for the future of medicine, and in particular for women’s health. “I’ve been a reproductive perinatal epidemiologist for 30 years, and this is a moment to...