# ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/arpa-h-high-risk-high-reward-health-research-is-the-mandate-of-new-billion-dollar-us-agency-2/
- Published: 2022-09-21T09:30:47-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo caption: ARPA-H will act independently even though it sits within the National Institutes of Health, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Photo credit: National Institutes of Health. Article by Tong Sun. The Conversation – September 16, 2022. A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now has it’s first leader, as President Joe Biden announced Renee Wegrzyn as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, on Sept. 12, 2022. […] Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com