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ARPA-H, A New Model for Innovative Health Research

Ben White

Volume 29, 2022

Abstract

Biomedical research has traditionally been slow and incremental, but the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid break from this standard. The cornerstones of health research funding – gradual change and risk aversion – went out the window as the global medical community turned its attention to finding treatments and vaccines for COVID as fast as possible.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4079/pp.v29i0.18

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