A coalition of Ga company, academic, and nonprofit leaders have partnered to promote Ga as the property for the State-of-the-art Investigation Projects Company for Health and fitness (ARPA-H). The ARPA-H Ga Coalition is coordinating advocacy attempts in Ga and Washington, D.C. to convey ARPA-H headquarters to Georgia. ARPA-H received $1 billion in funding from Congress by the U.S. Office of Health and fitness and Human Solutions (HHS).
The ARPA-H Georgia Coalition was launched in May 2022 and is jointly led by the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Middle for World wide Well being Innovation and supported by the legislation agency of Baker Donelson. More customers contain a rising record of public and private universities, firms, nonprofits, and trade associations committed to building the circumstance to the Biden Administration that Ga should really be the residence of the ARPA-H headquarters.
“Georgia’s combination of wellness science and technological know-how leadership alongside with a heritage of combating world-wide disorder delivers Georgia with the exclusive infrastructure to host ARPA-H and address the nation’s wellness issues of nowadays and tomorrow,” claimed Dr. Russell Medford, the ARPA-H Georgia Coalition Chairman and CEO of Covanos. “Locating ARPA-H in our point out would most effective position this distinct agency to innovate and realize its mandate to tackle health and fitness equity, engage international companions, and split new ground.”
This 7 days, associates of Georgia’s Congressional delegation, led by Sen. Raphael Warnock and Rep. Buddy Carter, signed a letter of support highlighting Georgia’s distinct positive aspects and belongings.
“Georgia’s best ranked universities, clinical universities, schools of engineering and investigate establishments are at the forefront of biomedical and well being analysis to diagnose and treatment key diseases,” the letter states. “Boasting a very numerous expertise pool and sturdy pipeline that include things like its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Ga seeks to address challenges normally ignored.”
The Georgia delegation letter highlights for the U.S. Division of Overall health and Human Solutions Secretary Xavier Becerra Georgia’s “world-course talent, dynamic business technologies sector, and loaded public well being study legacy.” The letter also highlights that Georgia’s “higher education and learning and study institutions, jointly with the CDC and NGOs… have performed, and go on to enjoy, a pivotal position in combating polio, smallpox, monkeypox, Ebola, numerous pandemics, and other big diseases” and urged him to “consider the remarkable assets Ga delivers.”