Sprint for Women’s Health
About the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports biomedical and health breakthroughs that can deliver transformative, financially sustainable, and broadly applicable health solutions for everyone. ARPA-H is addressing critical unmet challenges in women’s health across all demographics, geographies, and socioeconomic statuses, championing transformative innovations and tackling health conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect women from every walk of life.
Through the “Sprint for Women’s Health,” ARPA-H is galvanizing the innovator, investor, researcher, and patient advocate communities to proactively address women’s health challenges, raise awareness, and spur innovation with two significant funding opportunity tracks, up to a total of $100 million. These funding opportunity tracks foster transformative research & development (R&D) efforts—from “Spark,” early-stage research, to “Launchpad,” later-stage development—that impact and enhance women’s health outcomes.
With both funding opportunities, ARPA-H is lowering entry barriers for a diverse range of participants, with a simplified submission process of an abstract followed by a pitch session.