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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”.

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  

Dr. Asaf Bitton answers three questions on the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security recently published report “Building the CDC the Country Needs.”

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

A partnership between Ariadne Labs, UNHCR-The UN Refugee Agency, ELEMENT Productions, International Medical Corps and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative launch new series of 26 online educational videos to empower all Ukrainians—the public, healthcare workers, medics, firefighters and law enforcement—with the critical skills to save lives.