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Lauren Olsho is a senior health economist and evaluator with expertise in random assignment, quasi-experimental evaluation methods, economic modeling methodology, and advanced statistical and econometric analysis.Olsho’s primary research interests are in health, nutrition and health behaviors in vulnerable populations – including the elderly, the poor, program participants, minorities, arrestees and at-risk youth.Olsho recently served as principal investigator on a cluster random assignment evaluation of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality On-Time Falls Prevention Initiative, a clinical decision support intervention to reduce falls in long-term care settings.

Lauren Dunton is a Principal Associate with almost two decades of experience as a social science researcher evaluating programs and analyzing policies relating to homelessness, housing, workforce, and education across the country. As a seasoned Project Director, Ms. Dunton has led complex research and technical assistance projects for a range of federal agencies, state governments, and national foundation and philanthropic organizations. She has expertise in qualitative and mixed-method data collection and analysis, leading project teams, and authoring reports. 

The Abt-led, USAID-funded Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity’s technical assistance helps a Tajikistan lifestyle center improve community health behavior.

Abt Global supports work in child nutrition to improve the availability of, access to, and consumption of nutritious food in children worldwide.

Most U.S. adults do not meet the Dietary Guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake, especially people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and other low-income Americans. While evidence suggests that improved diet quality…

Abt evaluated the MacArthur Foundation’s WOO Initiative and found investments in individual entities support affordable housing preservation and development.

A study of an approach to recruit employers to register apprenticeship programs detected a statistically significant impact on adoption of such programs.

Two small tests of a college-based version of the Year Up program found a general need for improvements and identified a strategy that may address this need.