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AI Helps EPA Standardize and Sharpen Toxic Chemical Data

Impact Brief
Abt used AI to standardize EPA off site chemical transfer data to 97% accuracy, enabling faster analysis and stronger chemical safety decisions.
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Connecting Care for Children and Families: Testing New Approaches to Improve Outcomes and Manage Costs

Impact Brief
Abt is evaluating if new approaches to CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model can improve outcomes for Medicaid-enrolled children while controlling costs.
Approaches to Assisting Families Experiencing or At Risk of Homelessness with TANF Funds

Approaches to Assisting Families Experiencing or At Risk of Homelessness with TANF Funds

Publication
On behalf of OPRE, Abt assessed the use of TANF funding by state agencies to supporting housing for families experiencing homelessness.
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Helping Get the Kinks out of Home Health Prospective Payments

Project
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…
Student Outcomes and Charter Schools in New Mexico

Student Outcomes and Charter Schools in New Mexico

Project
Prior studies of charter schools have focused on different types of charter schools than those in New Mexico. For example, many prior research studies elsewhere have focused on charters in urban and suburban areas or on charters run by charter management…
Transform: Primary Health Care Project

Transform: Primary Health Care Project

Project
Achieving the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s ambitious targets to reduce maternal, neonatal, and infant mortality by more than half requires substantial investments at the woreda (district) level. The ministry’s challenges include insufficient government…
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Providing Employment Services in Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Programs: Responses to COVID-19

Publication
This brief describes how seven programs that provided substance use disorder treatment, recovery services, and employment services adapted to COVID-19.
How a National Healthcare Training Program’s Impacts Vary Locally

How a National Healthcare Training Program’s Impacts Vary Locally

Publication
Most local Health Profession Opportunity Grants programs improve short-term educational progress and healthcare employment, but evidence on earnings impacts is ambiguous.
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CommentCounts™ Manages Complex Public Comment Processes

Project
Federal laws often do not specify every detail of how agencies should implement them. Agencies must use the rulemaking process to do so and seek public comments on the rules. They also seek public comments for other policy and rule changes.  Some attract…