Impact the Future of Health Research

With the Apple Research app, you can participate in three innovative health studies on hearing, women’s health, and heart and movement that could lead to important discoveries and help millions lead healthier lives.

Apple has partnered with leading academic and research institutions for three multiyear longitudinal studies. By participating, you’ll contribute data about your movement, your heart rate, and noise levels around you during everyday activities, from taking a walk to attending a concert.

Here’s a look at the studies you can enroll in right now in the Apple Research app.

In the first study of its kind, Apple has teamed up with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to gain a deeper understanding of how certain demographic and lifestyle factors affect menstrual cycles and gynecologic conditions, including infertility, menopausal transition, and polycystic ovary syndrome.

The cycle-tracking data from participants’ iPhone and Apple Watch devices, along with survey responses, will help inform the development of innovative products that could help prevent these conditions, as well as risk assessment and early screening of gynecologic conditions.

A collaboration with the American Heart Association and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, this study will explore the link between physical activity and heart health. It will help drive insight into what factors can affect heart health and impact movement over time. 

Using Apple Watch and iPhone, researchers will gain a better understanding of potential early warning signs to create interventions and products for longer, healthier, and more active lives.

Conducted in conjunction with the University of Michigan, this groundbreaking study will advance the understanding of how hearing is affected over time by exposure to sound at certain levels. Researchers will collect headphone and environmental sound exposure data and determine how it impacts participants’ hearing, stress levels, and cardiovascular health. 

The study data will be shared with the World Health Organization as a contribution to its Make Listening Safe initiative.

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