We work with healthcare visionaries, policymakers, and funders to make value-based care happen.
- Embed with healthcare institutions
- Redesign care pathways
- Run real-world pilots
- Publish transferable evidence
Turning sick-care into
health-care.
Equipping visionaries to shift care upstream through technology and design.
1 in 3 adults globally, 3 in 4 older adults are sick
Reactive systems struggle here. Chronic disease has no discharge date, no clean episode, no straightforward unit of care.
Patients spend less than two hours a year with their doctor
Patients manage their diet, medication, and daily habits at home, without clinical support between visits.
Care is still organised around the crisis
Hospital innovation absorbs most of the field's attention. That's where patients spend the least time.
Three ways to partner with the Lab.
You bring the clinical context. We bring the methodology.
You bring the patient population and institutional readiness. We bring methodology, evidence infrastructure, and philanthropic funding to cover the experiment.
Start a conversation →Fund the experiments that operating budgets won't cover
Your funding lets institutions run experiments they can't budget for themselves. Each feeds the shared evidence base. We're looking for founding funders who believe healthcare changes when the conditions for change are funded.
Start a conversation →Access evidence built for policy use from the start
Policy shapes the conditions where care reform holds or collapses. We work with health ministries and regulatory bodies that want to use real-world evidence from comparable systems to inform those conditions.
Start a conversation →Guided by leaders in global health policy and international development.
Former President, National Academy of Medicine (2002–2014). Former Provost, Harvard University. Professor of Health Policy and Management, Emeritus, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, The Asia Foundation. Former Representative in Indonesia and the Philippines, Ford Foundation. Social anthropologist with four decades in international development and philanthropy.
View profile →Four defining principles.
Evidence-Generating, Not Just Evidence-Citing
We generate original, contextualised evidence in each engagement. Published findings go to the full network, structured to work in other health systems.
Systems-First, Technology-Enabled
We start with systems design: mapping care pathways and incentive structures. Technology comes in as a solution to a specific, diagnosed problem.
Philanthropically De-Risked
Philanthropic funding covers the experiments that partner institutions can't budget for. They test new models without betting their operating margins.
Cross-Geography by Design
A finding from Singapore that holds in San Francisco is harder to dismiss than evidence from one site.
Partner Selection
Before any engagement starts, we confirm the institution is ready to redesign and there's a specific care pathway challenge on the table.
Care Pathway Redesign
Diagnostic mapping using Health by Design, a methodology for tracing where the care model breaks down.
Piloting & Evidence
Rigorous real-world tests, with a publication plan locked before the pilot starts. Findings go to the full network.
Scale & Policy Translation
We package findings for replication by other systems and for policy dialogue with health ministries.
Lab membership gives you curated evidence from live deployments and direct access to practitioners redesigning care across geographies.
Evidence from live deployments, not literature reviews
Curated evidence from real deployments: the workflows, the patient cohorts, the outcomes. The parts that worked and the parts that didn't.
Hands-on support, from diagnosis through publication
The Lab provides technical support and peer coaching at each stage. A redesigned care pathway in one country becomes a reference case for the others.
Connect with pioneers across health systems
Working sessions, site visits, and cross-geography peer groups. The Lab connects you with practitioners redesigning care systems in real time.
Programmes open now.
Where we're working now.
Healthcare knows where it wants to go. The Lab is where you work out how to get there.
Tell us what you're trying to change. We'll be straightforward about whether the Lab is the right fit.