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Health & Well-being

New Pathways for Health Innovation

What factors contribute to good health for all?

Scientific breakthroughs have transformed what medicine can do, but they alone don’t guarantee better health. We believe that research focused on delivery of care and disease prevention is a critical component of cutting-edge medical science.

More Than Medicine

Better health extends beyond the walls of hospitals and clinics—to the places where people live, learn, work and connect. More Than Medicine is a campaign to demonstrate that health solutions science is rigorous and essential for health.

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It is time to extend our belief in the power of science a little further—to the researchers who prioritize how to deliver care and improve health.”

Sindy Escobar Alvarez, Ph.D.

Program Director for Medical Research

Doris Duke Foundation

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Accelerating Gains in Health Through Research: A Funder Roadmap

The Collective to Strengthen Pathways for Health Research—a growing group of funders working to elevate health solutions science—offers a framework inviting philanthropy to help strengthen the field of health solutions science.

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Toward a Healthier Future: Building a Science of Health Beyond Biomedical Discovery

Funders at leading health research funding organizations published a special issue in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst highlighting why health solutions science is essential to improving health at scale and why it deserves greater investment.