Why has life expectancy declined in the United States – one of richest countries in the world? Ariadne Labs Executive Director Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, and Michelle Williams, SM, ScD, Dean of the Faculty of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, sat down with Washington Post reporter Frances Stead Sellers for an April 10th… Continue reading Why are Americans Dying Sooner?
How do you solve a problem like loneliness from a public health perspective? The students participating in an Ariadne Labs-sponsored, human-centered design workshop pondered that question. Research shows that loneliness is as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. But what can we do about it? Participants in the Feb. 24th workshop… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Workshop Challenges Participants to Use Human-Centered Design to Solve a Public Health Issue
In our Five-Question Feature to mark the 10-year anniversary of Ariadne Labs, we highlight the staff and faculty behind the lab’s compelling work. Katherine Semrau, PhD, MPH, director of the BetterBirth Program at Ariadne Labs, has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of maternal, newborn, and child health and epidemiology, including significant… Continue reading Five Questions with Katherine Semrau: Seeing Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health from All Angles
The U.S. behavioral health care system is facing a capacity crisis. The country currently has 13% fewer state psychiatric beds than it did in 2010; in Massachusetts alone, more than 700 patients await inpatient psychiatric care every day. Many patients wait for psychiatric care in the emergency department, sometimes for days, delaying their treatment and… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Launches Behavioral Health Home Hospital Feasibility Initiative
Since 2015, Ariadne Labs’ Primary Health Care team has studied Costa Rica’s effective primary health care system and extrapolated the lessons the system offers to the United States and other countries. These lessons were explored in a Jan. 27th panel, hosted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH,… Continue reading Panel Highlights Lessons of Costa Rica’s Primary Health Care System
In our Five-Question series to mark the 10-year anniversary of Ariadne Labs, we highlight the staff and faculty behind the lab’s compelling work. Even during his medical training, June-Ho Kim, MD, MPH, Interim Director of Ariadne Labs’ Primary Health Care program, was drawn to the realm of public health and health policy change. Working in… Continue reading Five Questions with June-Ho Kim: Treating the Whole Person
By Anupama Murthy, MD; Mary Brindle, MD, MPH; Alex B. Haynes, MD, MPH; and George Molina, MD, MPH Twelve years ago, the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist was introduced in a publication in The New England Journal of Medicine, sparking a worldwide movement to improve the culture of surgical safety. A major study in Scotland subsequently indicated that the use… Continue reading Improving the Implementation of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist
As Ariadne Labs marks the 10th anniversary of its founding, we are pleased to kick off a year-long event series to reflect on our progress and look ahead to new and emerging challenges in public health and health care. Throughout 2023, we invite all members of our community to join us as we hear from… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Announces Schedule of Events to Recognize 10 Year Anniversary
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has released a landmark report detailing recommendations to strengthen the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s performance in responding to and mitigating disease outbreaks. Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, is a signatory on the report and served on the bipartisan working… Continue reading CSIS Report Outlines Recommendations to Strengthen CDC’s Epidemic Preparedness and Response Capabilities
Five grants will support early-stage ideas to make health care safer, more integrated, and more equitable BOSTON, MA — January 11, 2023 – Ariadne Labs today announced five recipients of the Ariadne Labs Spark Grant innovation awards for the 2022-2023 year. The Spark Grant program provides support for new and early-stage ideas focused on making… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Announces 2022-2023 Spark Grant Recipients