Health FFRDC

Addressing the nation’s complex health and human services challenges

MITRE works in the public interest to address complex structural, technical, behavioral, and social challenges that affect health and healthcare delivery. The goal? Better outcomes to empower patients and clinicians, ensure access to care, improve health equity, accelerate biomedical innovation, and ensure global health security.

We operate the Health FFRDC on behalf of sponsors across the Department of Health and Human Services. Through multi-disciplinary teams, this federally funded research and development center serves all federal agencies with health and human services missions: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Health Resources and Services Administration, Administration for Children and Families, and more.

We advance evidence-based policy making, driving inventive approaches to effective and equitable federal health policies and programs. Our experts bring institutional and policy knowledge, applied science, and systems thinking to identify problems and create solutions.

With an eye to the future, we mobilize the right people, convene stakeholders, and lead public-private partnerships across health and human services sectors to foster advanced innovations.

Open, Interoperable, Equitable Outcomes

Our objectivity and trusted access to public and confidential data enable us to create new insights. How? By applying deep systems thinking to spearhead transformative innovations, such as:

• Evaluating the federal government’s Operation Expanded Testing (OpEt) program, which provided COVID-19 testing that helped schools and other congregate settings in some of the hardest-hit areas of the country reopen and operate safely.
• Easing burden on stressed health systems during disease outbreaks, with secure, accessible remote health monitoring and reporting
• Partnering with CDC to create a data-driven approach to address childhood obesity research—now expanding to include adults
• Developing a playbook, at the request of FDA, to provide practical considerations for health delivery organizations to address medical device cybersecurity incidents.
• Analyzing value-based payment models to assure high-quality, lower-cost care
• Addressing equity throughout all aspects of the healthcare delivery system

With our unique perspective, we bridge government and the private sector to accelerate solutions to the most pressing healthcare and public health problems.