Asaf Bitton

Biography

Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH is the executive director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He leads Ariadne Labs’ efforts to design, test, and spread scalable systems-level solutions to make health systems more safe, equitable, and integrated, improving the lives of over 98 million patients in 2023. He has also served as a senior policy advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation for 12 years, designing the largest tests of combined Medicare primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the US. He was a core founder and vice chair of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, an 8-year partnership with WHO, World Bank, Gates Foundation, and others to strengthen primary care globally. He is a practicing primary care physician, and serves on the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security with members of Congress, and the NASEM standing committee on primary care.