Sumbul Desai is a name that we’ve begun to see more of during Apple recent events, with the company’s VP of health sharing details on where Apple is going next in terms of health. Now, in a new interview on the Second Life podcast Desai talks about her career, medicine, and more.
The wide-ranging 42-minute interview includes a discussion about Desai’s role at Apple and the “multidisciplinary” approach it allows her to take to her work. The former vice chair of strategy and innovation at Stanford Medicine goes on to describe it as mixing various types of health and medicine as “like an orchestra and a symphony.”
And then, of course, there’s Apple’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, something that was spearheaded by Desai.
During the trying time of the COVID-19 pandemic, Desai helped lead Apple’s response efforts and support for the vaccine. As the vaccines began to roll out, Desai and her team at Apple navigated the efforts around education by releasing helpful content that connected customers with experts for optimal support.
Apple’s focus on health began with Apple Watch and continues via health updates made to iOS 15 and beyond. CEO Tim Cook famously said that health will be Apple’s biggest contribution to the world and he might just have a point.
You can listen to the podcast via Apple Podcasts and the embedded player above. Alternatively, Spotify fans can also listen over there, too.
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