Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future: Essay Challenge - The Official PLOS Blog

"We encourage you to think critically about the current state of biomedical research, globally. We hope our challenge stimulates you to confer with colleagues and consider submitting an individual or multi-authored essay that will propose and elaborate new ideas addressing the challenges for the field – for example:

• Innovative ways to move away from contemporary and reductive metrics of success and towards efforts that measurably improve everyday lives (e.g. advances in diagnostics, therapy, drug discovery, health services, and novel solutions to reduce health inequities).
• Bold ideas to realign incentives for behaviors that advance discovery, support healthcare decision makers, and benefit society.
• New ways to frame transparency and rigor as Open Scholarship values, not just checklists or hurdles, to improve societal trust in science.
• Strategies to build an equitable, open, and transparent research ecosystem that values, empowers, and nurtures diversity. 
• Approaches that depend on creativity and innovation and not on the need for “more” (e.g.  more money, more data, more publications, etc.)..."