Based in Boston, USA, Ariadne Labs focuses on the most critical moments in people’s lives: childbirth, surgery and serious illness care. It is a joint centre between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, both charitable non-profit organisations. The leadership team includes Dr Atul Gawande.
Ariadne Labs’ mission is to create scalable healthcare solutions that produce better care at the most critical moments in people’s lives, everywhere. These solutions or tools are simple, practical and designed to have global impact.
Its vision is to ease suffering, optimise patient choice, and save lives, everywhere. Its programmes and projects are at varying stages of development, from prototyping to wide-scale dissemination around the world.
