Alan Logan, President Brian Berman, and Scholar Susan Prescott co-authored a piece urging the expansion of the proposed ARPA-H to include the wide array of factors that impact health—physical, social, emotional, political, and economic.
“Here, we explore the origins of the Advanced Research Project Agency and point to its potential to build integrated solutions, with wisdom and ethical value systems as a compass. Since the planned ARPA-H is anticipated to spawn international collaborations, the imagined concept is of relevance to a broad audience of researchers. With appropriate input, the quest for health equity through personalized, precision medicine while deconstructing unacceptable structural inequities may be accelerated.”