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Analysis of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Loads Program
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The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the U.S., encompassing 64,000 square miles and covering parts of six states and Washington DC. In the 1970s, the Bay was discovered to have one of the world’s first identified marine dead zones. Poor water…
CAATCH Improves Outcomes For Women & Youth With HIV
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Two major challenges in efforts to suppress HIV are client engagement and retention in treatment. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MADPH) awarded Abt Global the Consumer Access and Adherence to Care for HIV (CAATCH) contract to develop and…
Influencing Framework for UK Development in Nepal
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Under the new Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the UK government sought to maximise the benefits of an approach that integrates diplomacy and development. These benefits included generating new evidence through research and evaluation…
Population Health, Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) Program
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Abt and three Medicare locals-- Central Queensland, Wide Bay, and Sunshine Coast--formed a consortium to establish a primary health network (PHN). To strengthen the partnership, Abt recruited a team of professionals and established the Population Health…
Using Publication Monitoring and Social Media to Help NIDILRR’s Disability Research Reach its Audience
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The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is the federal government’s primary disability research organization. (NIDILRR is part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL)). NIDILRR funds…
Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments
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Changes in the complex prospective payment system (PPS) for home health agencies (HHAs) may have led to HHA behavior changes that thwarted the modifications’ goals. As a result, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wanted an assessment of…
Mission Support for EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program
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Abt provides multidisciplinary support to EPA’s TRI Program to help the Agency better understand and share trends in toxic chemical releases in the U.S.
Exploring Lessons from SSA Disability Policy Demonstrations
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Since the 1980s, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has tested many new policies and programs to improve work outcomes for Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients. These demonstrations covered…
Supporting Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Efforts
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity (EMO) team aims to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty and to catalyze systemic changes to promote upward mobility. Abt has been brought on board as a thought partner to…
Providing Technical Assistance through the NHSC Pipeline Readiness Initiative
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The demand for healthcare services in the United States is outpacing the number of care providers, and projections show that trend continuing into the future, exacerbating an already overstretched healthcare system. Worse still, the communities most in…