Systems Change in Science and Health
Overview
Science needs strategic funding, collaboration, interdisciplinary expertise, and an understanding of how new medicines and tools go from the basic research stage, all the way through to market. Competing priorities, aversion to risk, limited funding streams, and siloed fields make the kinds of breakthroughs needed to benefit human health extraordinarily difficult to achieve.
MI Philanthropy’s Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Development (SPARC) is driving field advancement that is changing scientific research and clinical care by bringing together perspectives, expertise, data, and tools to promote intentional support to create a stronger, more equitable system.
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