Hello Lyme Advocate,
We need your help. Please take a few minutes to ask your U.S. Representative to Co-Sponsor HR 5585, the ARPA-H Act.
Here's why it's important. ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Health) is a new agency which is designed to foster innovative research in health. We need innovation in Lyme and Tick-borne disease for new diagnostics and therapies, an eventually a cure. ARPA-H is thus far funded by the House with 3 billion dollars and the Senate with $2.4B, but needs to be authorized and structured for success -- and this bill does just that. It creates an independent reporting structure NOT in the NIH, but directly to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is how all the other successful ARPA agencies were formed (DARPA in Defense and ARPA-E in Energy).
An independent ARPA-H could be a key to unlocking diagnostics and therapies for Lyme and Tick-borne diseases!
Please enter your information below and send the email to your U.S. Representative.
Thank you very much!
Bonnie

Ask Your Member of Congress to Co-Sponsor the ARPA-H Act

ARPA-H can open federal funding and action for Lyme and tick-borne disease

Hello Lyme Advocate,

We need your help. Please take a few minutes to ask your U.S. Representative to Co-Sponsor HR 5585, the ARPA-H Act.

Here's why it's important. ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency–Health) is a new agency which is designed to foster innovative research in health. We need innovation in Lyme and Tick-borne disease for new diagnostics and therapies, an eventually a cure. ARPA-H is thus far funded by the House with 3 billion dollars and the Senate with $2.4B, but needs to be authorized and structured for success -- and this bill does just that. It creates an independent reporting structure NOT in the NIH, but directly to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is how all the other successful ARPA agencies were  formed (DARPA in Defense and ARPA-E in Energy).

An independent ARPA-H could be a key to unlocking diagnostics and therapies for Lyme and Tick-borne diseases!

Please enter your information below and send the email to your U.S. Representative.

Thank you very much!
Bonnie


Please co-sponsor the ARPA-H Act (H.R. 5585), legislation to create an independent Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a health agency focused on accelerating biomedical innovation to develop transformative breakthroughs in how we detect and treat the most debilitating diseases such as Persistent Lyme and other Tick-borne disease. 

A nimble, dynamic, and independent ARPA-H, modeled after the esteemed Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will transform health and medicine. H.R. 5585 provides ARPA-H with the authorities, resources, and the structure it needs to be successful. The legislation establishes an independent ARPA-H within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reporting directly to the Secretary, precisely the same successful structure as DARPA and ARPA-E at the U.S. Energy Department, with the goal of fostering the development of new, breakthrough innovation in health and medicine through large-scale, high-risk initiatives in close coordination with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS), and other relevant Federal agencies.

Lyme and Tick-borne disease cases have increased more than 5-fold since 1991. Yet millions of Americans suffer from persistent Lyme disease due to the lack of diagnostics and treatments.  Nearly a half a million Americans get Lyme disease every year.

Please co-sponsor HR 5585 create this new agency, so it has the structure and mission to foster innovation. For more information or to add your name as a cosponsor, please  contact Jaclyn Brennan at jaclyn.brennan@mail.house.gov and Asad Ramzanali at asad.ramzanali@mail.house.gov in the office of Congresswoman Anna Eshoo.  

Best regards,

Ask Your Member of Congress to Co-Sponsor the ARPA-H Act

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