How Google Health Studies app will let you contribute to health research.
                     HOW GOOGLE HEALTH STUDIES APP 
WILL LET YOU CONTRIBUTE TO 
HEALTH RESEARCH
INTRODUCTION
• Google has released an app for Android users to engage in health studies. 
• An effort to make it easy for research organisations to interact with 
prospective study subjects is the Google Health Studies app. 
Source: yahoofinance.com
RESEARCH ON HEALTH STUDIES
• The first study, which focuses on respiratory 
disorders, including influenza and COVID-19, 
is in cooperation with researchers from 
Harvard Medical School and Boston 
Children's Hospital. In India, the app is not 
available yet. 
Source: drhoffman.com
GOOGLE HEALTH STUDIES
• Google Health Studies would provide 
researchers with a forum to engage a large 
and varied audience, so that they can better 
understand human health. 
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CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICAL 
SCIENCE
• Google has said that this project would provide 
the public with greater resources to contribute 
to medical science.
•  While it is not available for Indian users for 
now, the app can be downloaded from Google 
Play.
Source: 
www.medicalnewstoday.com
RESPIRATORY HEALTH STUDY
• Adults in the US are registered for Google's first 
study on the Android platform, the Respiratory 
Wellbeing Study. 
• It will concentrate on understanding the evolution 
of respiratory diseases in populations, including 
influenza and COVID-19, and how risk factors 
such as age and behaviours such as travel vary. 
Source: www.health.harvard.edu
HOW GOOGLE HEALTH STUDIES APP 
WORK?
• Participants may be asked to periodically 
self-report how they feel, what symptoms 
they may have, prevention precautions 
they have taken, if any, and additional 
details such as COVID-19 or influenza test 
results using the Google Health Studies 
app.
Source: medcitynews.com
PRIVACY TECHNOLOGY
• The first study uses a privacy technology that will 
help researchers to explore patterns and 
understand the relation between mobility, such 
as the amount of regular trips a person makes 
outside the home and the spread of coronavirus.
Source: gadgets.ndtv.com
FOCUSED AREA
• When creating the app, Google said it 
concentrated on three principles: 
• keeping knowledge secure
• handling it responsibly
• putting participants in charge
Source: gadgets.ndtv.com
SECURED DATA
• The tech giant believed the data of the 
participants would be secured with the 
advanced encryption of Google, and all the 
data would be encrypted and safely stored 
for analysis data. 
• Google said that as they were available, 
participants will also be able to access study 
results.
Source: online.stanford.edu
RESEARCH DOCUMENT
• Participants would be able to see what data, 
and when and why it is shared, is being 
presented for each sample. 
• Google claimed that the data from the report 
would only be used for uses expressly approved 
in the research document. 
• As claimed by the organisation, it will not be 
used to screen participants advertisements, 
exchanged with sponsors, or sold.
Source: pharmashots.com