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CDC selected an Abt-led team to support communication of health information to the American public.

Jeff Wuorinen is Abt’s new VP, Just Climate and Energy Transitions, building on more than 20 years of experience helping clients manage just climate and energy transitions.

ACF has contracted Abt Global to conduct a longitudinal study of how recovery coaching programs impact parents and families in the child welfare system.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded an Abt-led team a contract to provide training and technical assistance to state, local, and tribal governments.

Abt upgraded NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database, improving the functionality and linking it to other resources so users can get more from their searches.

Clark Abt, an engineer, environmentalist, entrepreneur, educator and social scientist, is the founder and past president of Abt Global Inc. He served as Abt’s President from 1965 to 1985, Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1986 to 2005, and was then elected Chairman Emeritus. He is the author of 10 books on social and economic policies and advanced technologies, as well as many articles.Clark Abt was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1929, and came to the United States in 1937. He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a freshman in aeronautical engineering in 1947 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in general engineering in 1951. He then served four months in the Merchant Marine as an ordinary seaman, followed by a year at Johns Hopkins University as an English instructor, obtaining an M.A. from the Department of Writing, Speech and Drama for this master thesis, “A Year of Poems.”

Abt’s assessment of HUD’s First-Time Homebuyer Education and Counseling Demonstration found improvements for younger people and women, but not  people of color.