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In the first of a series of events to mark Ariadne Labs’ ten-year anniversary, Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, the labs’ Executive Director, led a discussion on April 5, 2023, about the future of public health and health care with Michelle A. Williams, SM, ScD, Dean of the Faculty of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public… Continue reading The Future of Public Health and Health Care

In our Five-Question series, we highlight the staff and faculty behind the compelling work at Ariadne Labs. Upstream or downstream? That has long been a career question for Nic Encina, MS, MS, MBA, now Director of Strategy of the Precision Population Health initiative at Ariadne Labs.  In the medical and health world “upstream” is often… Continue reading Five Questions with Nic Encina: Working Upstream or Downstream

Dr. Asaf Bitton and Dean Michelle Williams join “Explaining America” to discuss the current state of health care in the United States and strategies for improving care.

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

Dr. Atul Gawande pens an essay published in the New York Times on the aftermath of the pandemic and the need to reorient our health systems toward primary care.

Coverage of the TeamBirth launch at Hastings Hospital in Cherokee Nation, expanding state-wide implementation in Oklahoma.

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

Becker’s Hospital Review covers the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security report “Building the CDC the Country Needs”.