Empowering Patients with Data to Drive Drug Development

In November, Citizen Health unveiled itself with $14.5 million in funding and a partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. A reinvention of what began life as Ciitizen, Citizen Health takes a sharp focus on rare disease, a departure from its precursor, which was initially envisioned as a tool for cancer patients to gather all of their health data in a single place. We spoke to Citizen Health Co-Founders Farid Vij and Nasha Fitter about the evolution of Citizen Health, what it will enable, and how it is helping shift power towards patients and their caregivers in the pursuit of new therapies.