Celebrating Together: Baseline Health Study’s Four-Year Anniversary Event
In May 2022, Project Baseline Health Study participants and researchers came together to...
Baseline Blog
Read the latest collection of Baseline stories and news. From clinical trails to COVID-19 efforts and beyond, we’re accelerating scientific discovery.
COVID-19 Hot Topics Survey
We asked our COVID-19 Research Community how they feel about navigating the next few months in...
Women’s Health Concerns Then and Now
Results are in from our first Health Concerns Survey for the Research Goes Red community.
Four Years of the Baseline Health Study
We set out on this mission to map human health with the hope that our work may inform the future...
Navigating COVID-19 safely during the 2021 holiday season
As the holidays are fast approaching and COVID-19 is still active in our communities, we must...
2021 Roundup and 2022 Predictions in Clinical Research and Health
Heading into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Baseline team at Verily embraced...
Understanding the Baseline Gut Research Project community and inflammatory...
We’re excited to share our first set of findings from the Baseline Gut Research Project.
New Sleep Mission Results Available Now
We're excited to share results on how the time change affected sleep time, quality, and restedness.
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on children during the Delta wave
Just as many children are heading back to in-person learning, the highly contagious Delta...
Safer travel guidance from the CDC
Many Americans are looking forward to traveling over the summer months. The CDC has created...
Deep dive on COVID-19 variants, vaccinations, and more with a medical expert
The Delta variant is becoming a dominant COVID-19 strain worldwide, and is increasing rapidly in...
Breaking down the CDC guidance for vaccinated individuals with a public health expert
Verily Head of Clinical Policy and former FDA Commissioner, Dr. Rob Califf, sat down with us to...
Coping with change and improving mental health in the next phase of the...
Forty percent of adults in the United States struggled with a mental health disorder during...
Baseline COVID-19 Research Project impact and community overview
In one year, Baseline COVID-19 Research Project has made a significant impact on researchers’...
Mental Health Month Q&A on digital health research
One in five U.S. adults experiences mental illness. In honor of Mental Health Month, we sat down...
COVID-19 Vaccine perceptions results
As vaccines become widely available, we asked COVID-19 research Project members about their...
Why is increasing Access to Research important to Minority Health?
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to the importance of clinical research, as...
A day in the lives of women in science and technology careers
Women hold less than 30% of jobs in science and technology fields. So what’s it like for women...
Baseline COVID-19 Research Project Explores Vaccine Sentiments and Usage
Vaccines are a powerful tool for recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 Roundup and 2021 Predictions from Baseline
2020 was a year like no other.
Baseline Health Study: Wellbeing and Activity Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Participants in the Baseline Health Study participated in a health logging mission to get...
Baseline COVID-19 Testing Program Now Available to Teens Ages 13 and Older
Being a parent in 2020 has been exhausting.
How do Project Baseline researchers use participant survey data?
Health isn’t all about the numbers in your chart when you visit the doctor.
Health disparities intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to mitigate
The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting minority racial and ethnic groups. At...
Verily's Baseline Platform: Investing in Security and Privacy
The Public Health Crisis We are in the midst of the most significant health crisis in over a century.
Developing smarter COVID-19 testing to inform public health
As we’ve rolled out a community-based COVID-19 testing program in conjunction with the State of...
The Baseline COVID-19 Program releases guide for establishing community...
Streamlining COVID-19 screening, testing, and return of results is a significant challenge nationwide.
Go behind the scenes of the Baseline COVID-19 testing program
Expanding access to reliable screening and testing is critical to containing the spread of the COVID-19.
California opens two new community-based COVID-19 testing sites in...
The California community-based program to test high risk individuals for COVID-19, in...
Baseline COVID-19 Pilot Program shares early screening and testing progress
Site personnel in personal protective equipment (PPE) direct individuals to mobile testing site.
The Project Baseline COVID-19 Program: Responding to a health crisis
In the early days of this pandemic, Verily - like so many around the world - watched with great...
Verily, in collaboration with the California Governor’s office, federal,...
A coalition of scientists, public health officials, and citizens nationwide is uniting in the...
Addressing the biggest health threat to American women through research and...
Facing a crisis in heart disease, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced American Heart Month in...
Project Baseline participant wins election to City Council
Balloons, cheers and congratulations awaited Andy Langford, 67, when he arrived for his annual...
Project Baseline's top 10 2019 moments and 2020 predictions
Double down was one of the 200-year old Collins Dictionary’s top words of the year for 2019.
Project Baseline launches Mood Study to explore new digital markers of depression
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide.
Meeting the Baseline User Success team
Baseline User Success is the first line of communication between participants and Project...
Faces of Baseline: Meet Trell
Trell Millhouse joined the Project Baseline Health Study because he wants research to enable a...
Creating the human health map
Project Baseline was created to map human health, but who is responsible for thinking about what...
Sharing genetic information with research participants in the Project...
Genetic research is focused on pinpointing the slight variations in DNA that can cause serious,...
Using machine learning to advance movement analysis with the Verily Study Watch
The average American visits the doctor four times per year.
Applying user experience (UX) design to clinical research: Behind the Scenes Q&A
"Start with the use" is a guiding principle in technology, and the foundation of effective...
Researcher Q&A: Advancing health science to improve heart attack and stroke...
Inside the Heart Biomarker Study: Cardiology Q&A with researcher Svati Shah. Every 34 seconds in...
Cardiologist Q&A: Researching a new risk factor for heart disease
Many of us are familiar with cholesterol as a lab value we want to keep under control.
Building the participant-researcher feedback loop for Project Baseline...
Nearly ninety percent of U.S. adults now use at least one digital tool to monitor health–from...
Breaking new ground in returning study results to participants
Now more than ever, patients are considered key partners in healthcare.
Project Baseline launches Heart Biomarker Study to advance research around...
Heart disease causes one in four deaths in the United States annually.
Dr. Reed Tuckson's insights from the first Project Baseline Advisory Board meeting
When healthcare works, it's the result of collaboration.
Faces of Baseline: Nor
Dr. Nor Chiao came across a New York Times story on the Project Baseline Health Study while...
How research helped map my family's heart health
At some point in my childhood, I lost count of the number of research trials I consented for.
Project Baseline and the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women...
Women have been underrepresented in heart health research. That stops now.
New year, new horizons
It's a common resolution, but at Project Baseline, our goal is to stay focused on our core...
2019 Predictions from Project Baseline and our top 5 2018 moments
Mapping human health starts with study participants.
Faces of Baseline: David
Shortly after attending the Project Baseline One-Year Anniversary Celebration, David Norlander...
Faces of Baseline: Rosa
A city in North Carolina will celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, thanks to a Baseline...
Unlocking Medicare data for Project Baseline
Getting ahold of medical records can be an uphill battle—often you receive information in the...
Baseline Sudoku: What do puzzles and computational biology share in common?
If you're an avid fan of number and logic puzzles, you've probably heard of Dr. Sudoku.
Faces of Baseline: Gary
From now on, Gary Quigg will celebrate two milestones every April 11 — his birthday and his...
A new era of health data: The vision and challenges of returning individual...
We have entered a new era of ubiquitous health data.
Faces of Baseline: Scott
Scott Jung, 31, a self-proclaimed "gadget guy," said he originally joined the Project Baseline...
Project Baseline Turns 1 Year Old
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since we officially launched the Project Baseline...
Faces of Baseline: Anna and Justin
Although they live nearly 3,000 miles apart, strangers Anna Brooks and Justin Dennis are sharing...
Faces of Baseline: Phyllis
Goodbye 2017, hello 2018! Phyllis Perry (pictured above on right), 63, was one of the last...
Let it snow sensor data
Project Baseline study participants are finding a special surprise in their mailboxes this week.
Happy Holidays from the Project Baseline Team
This holiday season, we look back with gratitude for all we’ve accomplished this year.
Establishing a New Baseline of Health and Research Participation for Diverse...
The Project Baseline study seeks to collect health information from a diverse group of people...
Project Baseline Presents Thanksgiving Day Insights
At Project Baseline our goal is to map human health.
Catching up with Baseline
A bit over a decade ago, Andy Conrad and I were lamenting a problem I think of as the “blind men...
Science Spotlight: Microbiome with Vanessa Ridaura
We sat down with Vanessa Ridaura, a genomics scientist at Verily (center), to learn about her...
Duke Launches Project Baseline Study Enrollment in North Carolina
Duke University School of Medicine today launched the Project Baseline study in North Carolina...
Why Baseline?
The field of medicine is ever-evolving, and the hope is that recent advances in technology will...