ASAF BITTON, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center of over 100 staff and faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He leads Ariadne Labs’ efforts to design, test, and spread scalable solutions that make domestic and global health systems more effective, safe, and integrated. Annually, Ariadne’s solutions (checklists, technologies, clinical protocols and other interventions) focused on childbirth, primary care, surgery, home hospital, population genomics, and serious illness care reach over 140 million patients every year around the globe.
He has served as a Senior Advisor for Primary Care and Payment Policy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the US since 2012, helping to design and implement six major federal initiatives representing the largest tests and implementations of combined primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the United States. He was a core founder and leader of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative, an 8-year partnership between the Gates Foundation, WHO,World Bank, and UNICEF, that included more than 30 countries dedicated to improving the measurement and global provision of primary health care. Dr. Bitton practices primary care internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s South Huntington clinic, a team-based community primary care practice in Boston that he helped found in 2011. He currently serves on the board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Bipartisan Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security. He is also a member of the Executive Forum at the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (HCP-LAN), and co-chairs their Prevention Working Group. He was a member
of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that produced the widely cited report Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care in 2021, and currently serves on the National Academies Standing Committee for Primary Care, co-chairing the Payment Workgroup. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety and was the recipient of the 2023 Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award.
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