About Us
Our Mission
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems, delivering health breakthroughs in years, not decades.
Who We Are
ARPA-H advances high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. ARPA-H awardees are developing entirely new ways to tackle the hardest challenges in health.
What We Fund
ARPA-H funds research across four focus areas. These focus areas are disease agnostic, broad by design, and intersect to foster innovation without boundaries.
How We Do It
ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges. Our rigorous program design, competitive project selection process, and active program management ensure thoughtful and impactful expenditures. ARPA-H Program Managers serve for limited terms to ensure a constant infusion of fresh thinking and new perspectives.
Our Values
InnovativeRadical approaches to radical problems | NimbleSpeed as a strategic imperative |
AccountableRuthless focus on health impact | TransparentDisciplined risk, clear metrics; every milestone gates the next tranche |
BoldWe embrace productive failure as the price of transformative success |
Reports & Policies
ARPA-H follows policies set by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and responds to reporting requirements set by HHS, Congress, and the White House.