Andrew Trister via GitHub

Key Ap­ple dig­i­tal health re­searcher set to join the Gates Foun­da­tion — re­port

Last week, Ap­ple re­vealed it was work­ing with Eli Lil­ly on de­tect­ing de­men­tia in its ear­ly stages — and now a co-au­thor of the study is re­port­ed­ly head­ing to the Bill and Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion.

The sci­en­tist, An­drew Tris­ter, joined Ap­ple in April 2016 in a ‘spe­cial projects’ role — be­fore the tech gi­ant’s big am­bi­tions in health care were thrust in­to the spot­light.

In an in­ter­view with CN­BC on Fri­day, Tris­ter con­firmed he was de­part­ing to take on the role of dig­i­tal health in­no­va­tion at the Gates Foun­da­tion — where he is set to work with en­tre­pre­neurs that are think­ing of bring­ing dig­i­tal health tech­nolo­gies from the Unit­ed States to de­vel­op­ing na­tions, where smart­phones are in­creas­ing­ly be­com­ing all-per­va­sive. In ad­di­tion, he will al­so in­vest in projects lo­cat­ed un­der-re­sourced re­gions, such as rur­al Africa and In­dia, the re­port said.

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