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Abt Showcases Lessons Applied to Nigerian Family Planning Programming
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The Abt-led, USAID-funded SHOPS Plus program found new ways to bolster family planning training for practitioners.
Supporting Development, Dissemination and Implementation of the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline
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Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…
Caring for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
Project
Studies indicate that dementia care in the United States is, generally, impersonal and fragmented. Massachusetts requires long-term care facilities to provide dementia care training to direct-care workers. The intention of the regulation was to address…
Study: Plunge in Emissions During Shutdown Demonstrates Potential For Huge Environmental, Health, and Economic Gains
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A new study finds New York City’s shutdown during COVID-19 suggests how thousands of lives and billions of dollars could be saved through improved air quality.
Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Project
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To streamline emissions data, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a modelling tool that helps policy makers, researchers, and communities explore data on releases of toxic substances from…
What Strategies Work for Postsecondary Success
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Abt Global to lead What Works Clearinghouse Postsecondary Education, Postsecondary Preparation and Evidence Reporting (WWC-PEPPER) project.
Fostering Access to Climate Finance for Adaptation in the Caribbean
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Abt will lead USAID’s Resilient Economies and Sectors Activity (RESET) program to promote climate finance for sustainable, localized climate solutions.
Data Collection on COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness for CDC Required Quick Pivot
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Abt moved fast to adapt to changing CDC needs, including collecting data on vaccine effectiveness that showed the vaccines are highly effective.
New Program to Address Bangladesh’s Persistent Nutrition Challenges, Improve Empowerment of Women and Adolescents
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Abt Global will undertake a major program to improve Bangladesh’s nutrition and sanitation and the social and economic status of women and adolescents.