Summary: Given what's happened over the last year and a half, the Department of Health and Human Services would have something which the departments of Defense and Energy, as well as the intelligence community have — namely, an advanced research projects agency. Now the Biden administration has proposed just that: a $6.5 billion ARPA Health as part of the National Institutes of Health. With how an ARPA Health might work, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, starting with the question, isn't the NIH itself a sort of ARPA already? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
