Connecting Revolutions in Neuroscience with Health and Health Care
As a national leader in health and health care, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is continually searching for opportunities to generate greater impact. One of the charges of the Pioneer team, the most explicitly future-oriented of RWJF’s program areas, is to identify and investigate areas where transformative breakthroughs feel most possible. In line with this charge, working with the Monitor Institute, we’ve invited a provocative group of academics, researchers, physicians and industry leaders in neurotechnology, neuroscience and behavioral health to step to the ledge of current innovations in these fertile and promising fields – and then step beyond it – begin to anticipate what near-term and distant innovations in these fields could mean for health and health care. On November 11-12, this group, along with staff from the Foundation and Monitor, will engage in a series of highly iterative, forward-looking discussions that will culminate in a wrap-up that integrates the thinking across all three disciplines and outlines connections and implications for the future of health and health care. This event is a new approach for Pioneer. It is not connected with any prospective funding initiative. Rather, we play the role of convener, focused on bringing together the experts who hold the key to identifying and advancing the next generation of innovations in this space. I, for one, can’t wait to see what everyone has to say. If you would like to follow the conversation about the Forum on Twitter — leading up to, during and following the event — please use the #rwjfneuro hash tag. Interested in more information?
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