Moonshots and Bold Bets with Renee Wegrzyn
Government systems often take a lot of flack for their (sometimes) built-in inability to take risks and make big bets. So, what would it take to encourage the government to take those big, risky moonshots? For Health, that’s the role of ARPA-H – to fund new ways of improving health by investing in people with big ideas. We sat down with ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn at Aspen Ideas Health to talk about how it’s going and what comes next.
We discuss:
Why ARPA-H is personal for President Biden.
How ARPA-H’s special authorities – from flexible hiring to novel contracting – are its secret weapons…
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