Asaf Bitton
Asaf Bitton, M.D., M.P.H., is the executive director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
A globally-recognized leader in health systems innovation, he leads Ariadne Labs’ efforts to design, test, and spread scalable systems-level solutions that improve health care processes, enhance purposeful interactions between patients and their providers, and impact populations at scale.
As a practicing primary care physician and expert in primary health care policy, financing, and delivery, he has served as a senior advisor for primary care policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation since 2012. He has helped design and test three major comprehensive primary care payment and delivery initiatives, representing the largest tests of combined primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the United States. He currently serves on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Bipartisan Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the U.S., and is an elected member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety.
He previously served as director of Ariadne Labs’ Primary Health Care Program, leading primary care measurement and improvement initiatives in Central America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe along with previous work at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care directing regional primary care practice learning collaboratives in Massachusetts. He is a core founder and steering committee member of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, a partnership that includes more than 20 countries and the World Bank, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, The Global Fund, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated to improving the global provision of primary health care. Dr. Bitton practices primary care at Brigham and Women’s South Huntington clinic, a team-based community primary care practice in Boston that he helped found in 2011.
Dr. Asaf Bitton featured in The Atlantic’s writeup from their recent roundtable discussion on what might the next decade of health care deliver.
Dr. Asaf Bitton in the Boston Globe on concierge medicine and concerns around the growing inequities in primary care.
Dr. Asaf Bitton in WGBH, a Massachusetts PBS affiliate, on the health disparities that remain in high-ranking Massachusetts.
Dr. Asaf Bitton in STAT News on the burden of chronic conditions in our health system.
Dr. Asaf Bitton quoted in Newsweek.
By Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH; Evan Benjamin, MD, MS, FACP; Margaret Ben-Or, MPH Many K–12 schools in the United States are closing in on the end of their first term of the 2020–2021 school year, a year unlike anything we have experienced in recent history due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some schools have opened their… Continue reading Good News: In The Debate About School Re-opening, There Are A Few Things Schools Don’t Actually Need To Do
March 13, 2020 (Updated March 17, 2020)Download a printable PDF version of this article here. I know there is some confusion about what to do next in the midst of this unprecedented time of a pandemic, school closures, and widespread social disruption. As a primary care physician and public health leader, I have been asked… Continue reading Social Distancing: This is Not a Snow Day
Dr. Asaf Bitton discusses new Health Affairs Forefront article published from Ariadne Labs and collaborators at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners and Milbank Memorial Fund that demonstrates how scorecards can help strengthen struggling primary care systems in the U.S.
Drs. Rebecca Weintraub and Asaf Bitton are signatories on the latest report of the CSIS Working Group on Routine Immunizations and Global Health Security.
Drs. Asaf Bitton and Bruce Fink pen a commentary in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine on the steps needed to reorient US primary health care to be more effective, equitable, and efficient.
Members of our Primary Health Care program, with colleagues Barbra G. Rabson, MPH and Christopher F. Koller, share lessons from their work in developing Primary Care Scorecards globally and in the US and strategies to strengthen and implement high-quality primary care for everyone.
Dr. Asaf Bitton co-authors a commentary in NEJM Catalyst on a new typology of primary care delivery innovations in the U.S. to spark meaningful discussion among stakeholders and policy makers on their impact, ramifications, and value
Incorporating genetic sequencing into cancer screenings could facilitate early cancer detection.
How Costa Rica became a bright spot for primary health care practices.