UCSF Eureka Research

UCSF Eureka Mobile Team

About this app

Eureka makes it easy to join real medical studies and help solve the world’s biggest health problems—including heart disease, diabetes, cancer, mental illness, healthcare inequities and more.

It’s now easier than ever to have a big impact on causes you care about . All it takes to contribute to world-changing research with Eureka is a smartphone and a little bit of free time.

Team up with millions of other study participants helping top researchers from research universities like UCSF, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins to answer questions like, “What signals from my smartphone might predict heart disease?” and “How does physical activity affect cancer risk?”

Eureka is a non-profit resource built by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco with support from the National Institutes of Health. If you have questions about signing up or your current participation, reach out to us at [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

The app doesn't function properly. Upon completion of the first section, the only option was to "Submit Survey" (which I did) and I was expecting the app to load the next section automatically, but it didn't. The app also does not allow you to manually launch any of the other sections from the home page either. So now, I keep receiving daily alerts to complete the survey, but I am unable to launch any of the remaining sections.

Great initiative, I will continue to use. But some questions could be improved. For example, it asks if you ever smoked (even one of two puffs), and it asks if you smoked in the last 30 days. However it doesn't ask any questions to determine if you smoked for 50 years and quit 30 days ago, or if you tried one puff and never used again. Also it asks how many weeks ago you last had a fever, instead of asking the date. I recommend improving some of the questions to provide more accurate data.

App was finally updated/fixed to a point where I can take the survey again. Updating to 4 stars due to working again, but going months without a fix. I originally gave this five stars, but the last update made it so I can no longer open the app. It either crashes or fails to connect each time. Hopefully there'll be another update soon to fix this.

What’s new

This update includes multiple bug fixes and new features.