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Projects

Our Work

We’re building human-centered solutions that scale, and strengthening federal culture while we’re at it. Learn about some of our projects and partners below.

PIF Impact Report

If you’d like to learn more about our history, our fellows' work with partners, and our results, read our Impact Report.

Case studies All Projects
Defense Innovation Unit

Exploring China's Technology Transfer Strategy

Exploring China’s participation in U.S. venture deals and the passing of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Risk management at the FBI

Defining an Ecosystem to Help the Private Sector Manage Risk and Mitigate Threats

Health and Human Services

Accelerating telehealth awareness and adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic

Co-creating a cross-agency initiative to address challenges seen in adopting telehealth and serve 1M+ health care providers and 300M+ patients across the U.S.

NASA

Asteroid Grand Challenge and Citizenscience.gov

Designing and guiding open science and innovation research strategies for Earth and planetary science

National Cancer Institute

Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot

Reimagining cancer clinical trials increasing awareness and access for patients.

National Institutes of Health

Uniting communications and science to increase diverse representation in precision medicine research

Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) leveraged their expertise across marketing and data to help launch unprecedented health research initiatives.

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Blue Button Initiative

Increasing Americans' access to their own health information electronically

Smithsonian Institution

Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Herbarium

Bringing fresh perspective and critical expertise to the important work of sharing our treasures with millions of people online

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I'm a parent, and wanted to help build a better government for my daughters and future generations. The PIF program opened my eyes to a diverse group of like-minded people ready, willing, and able to help in the cause — both during the Fellowship and well beyond in the PIF alumni community.

Henry Wei , 2012-2013 PIF, detailed to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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