Ariadne Labs today announced three recipients of the Ariadne Labs Spark Grant innovation award. Now in its eighth year, the Spark Grant program was founded to “spark” new and early-stage ideas focused on addressing gaps in health care and improving delivery of care
BOSTON, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariadne Labs today announced three recipients of the Ariadne Labs Spark Grant innovation award. Now in its eighth year, the Spark Grant program was founded to “spark” new and early-stage ideas focused on addressing gaps in health care and improving delivery of care. New this year, Ariadne Labs partnered with Harvard Medical School to award two Dean’s Innovation Grants in Health Care Delivery to Harvard-affiliated faculty. The 2020-2021 recipients were chosen following a competitive selection process from a diverse pool of candidates. The work of this year’s awardees addresses gaps in care during the transition from prenatal to primary care, the expansion of home-based palliative care services for eligible patients, and the development of protocols for safe postpartum care following cesarean delivery for women in rural Africa. “More than ever, we need innovative ideas to bridge the gaps in delivering equitable health care,” said Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Ariadne Labs. “Over the past eight years, our Spark grantees have played a critical role in pushing us to continue to innovate, and have directly contributed to our ability to expand our work into new areas of the health care system, ultimately improving care for more patients.” “The history of medicine has shown us time and again that elegantly simple and scalable solutions can have profound and disruptive effects on health care systems, patient outcomes, and human lives. These catalytic grants and the collaboration that has enabled them are posed to achieve just that,” said Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley, MD, PhD. The 2020-2021 recipients are: Chloe Zera, MD, MPH, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Recipients of the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Innovation Grants in Health Care Delivery are: Anita Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH, Associate Professor, Department of Population Medicine, a joint Department of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute; Director, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Ethics Program
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
About the Spark Grant Program: Founded in 2012, the Spark Grant program provides eligible Ariadne Labs and Harvard Medical School faculty with a year of funding to support research and refine promising new ideas to address gaps in health care and create a pipeline of innovative, scalable solutions to continue to improve delivery of care at every stage of the health care journey. To learn more about the Spark Grant program, visit: https://www.ariadnelabs.org/spark-grants/. About Ariadne Labs Ariadne Labs is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. We develop simple, scalable solutions that dramatically improve the delivery of health care at critical moments to save lives and reduce suffering. Our vision is for health systems to deliver the best possible care for every patient, everywhere, every time. Visit ariadnelabs.org to learn more. Media Contact: Brigid Tsai, btsai@ariadnelabs.org
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