Public Health
Public health in the U.S. increasingly faces overlapping challenges, including emerging infectious threats, rising chronic disease, and behavioral health needs. Abt partners with federal, state, and local agencies to strengthen public and private health systems that protect lives and support national health security.
Our work spans substance use, behavioral health, infectious disease surveillance, laboratory systems strengthening, and chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. We support the full continuum, from early detection and prevention to treatment, recovery, and long-term management.
We deliver secure, scalable solutions that modernize data systems, improve analytic readiness, and turn evidence into timely, actionable decisions across public health systems.
Clients Include
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
National Institutes of Health
Defense Health Agency
Food and Drug Administration
Our Work
Technical assistance on use of data to more than 500 state, local, and Tribal grantees to improve substance use programs for justice involvement prevention
Track PCC uses public health surveillance to learn more about the effects and burden of Long COVID among diverse populations.
Studies that gather key physical, operational, and other data in U.S. nursing homes to better prepare them for future infectious disease outbreaks
Workforce development, data, communications, technical assistance, and program support to improve community-based behavioral health service delivery
The Abt team developed, implemented, and evaluated a communication campaign to increase education about and awareness of heart valve disease among the public, those at risk, and healthcare professionals.
Our Experts
Insights
Spotlight On: Opioid Use, Misuse and Overdose
Our work has helped address the supply of and demand for illegal drugs and the misuse of legal substances for federal, state and local agencies, as well as other key stakeholders.
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Multi-site study of communities with PFAS-contaminated drinking water: Methods, demographics, and PFAS serum concentrations
Presents findings from a multi-site study examining the relationship between PFAS-contaminated drinking water and PFAS levels in residents’ blood across the U.S.
Publication
Spotlight On: CDC COVID-19 Research
CDC’s real-time surveillance of COVID-19 cases and analyses of surveillance data inform public health policies, communication about protective behaviors, and guidance to public health and healthcare providers, communities, businesses, and schools.
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Transforming Rural Health: How Abt Delivers
Abt Global offers the technology and expertise states need to make strategic investments
for transforming rural health systems.
Resource
A State Playbook to Transform America’s Rural Health Workforce
An informative playbook to build, retain, and support the rural health workforce through GYO pipelines, pathways, residencies, telehealth, and team-based care.
Blog
Spotlight On: PFAS, Environmental Contamination, and Health
Abt has extensive experience investigating and addressing the complex effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment and on human health.
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Spotlight On: AI @ Abt
Abt helps public sector organizations use AI responsibly because we combine deep subject matter expertise with technical capability. This means our clients get tools that solve real problems rather than tech for its own sake.
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Tracking COVID-19 in High-Risk Workers
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed timely information on COVID-19 illness characterization and vaccine effectiveness in this highly exposed cohort. CDC also needed data on rates of symptomatic and asymptomatic infection and re-infection…
Project