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Abt Global conducts annual online surveys among pregnant women and health care personnel on vaccination use and attitudes toward vaccines.

Jacqui De Lacy is responsible for leading Abt’s development and technical services in alignment with its mission and values. She has a deep practical understanding of development issues and operations and has the capacity to shape, implement, and review individual programs and large development portfolios in ways that maximize impact.Jacqui possesses excellent leadership and management skills and is a thought leader on development issues in the Asia Pacific region. She often is invited to speak at conferences and events on international development and can engage effectively with the media and with a broad range of stakeholders.

Jason Brinkley, Ph.D., is a biostatistician, data scientist and health researcher who leads the Research Design and Analytics team in Abt’s Data Science, Surveys and Enabling Technologies division. Brinkley has expertise in a wide range of analytic methods, and he specializes in machine learning, customized data visualizations, maps and dash-boarding. Brinkley balances research time between examining theoretical ways to assess the impact of medical interventions on public health and developing best practices for using statistical software. A member of the American Statistical Association, AcademyHealth, and the American Association for Public Opinion Research, he also serves on the executive board of the Southeast SAS Users Group.

Abt’s Find the Fit study found the enhancements to the Department of Education’s Upward Bound program did not help students avoid undermatching.

Dr. Tara Reed is a leading expert with over 20 years of experience in community, program, and system level leadership. Her work has focused on system design, capacity building, participatory research, meaningful community engagement, cross-cutting approaches, and transformative action.