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The Impact of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks on Property Values
Project
Underground storage tanks (USTs) containing petroleum and other hazardous substances are everywhere. Accidental releases of the substances from leaking USTs (LUSTs) pose serious health, economic, and environmental risks to local residents. Abt helped the…
Flu. Coronavirus. Data. Could Analytics Change the Trajectory of a Pandemic?
Podcast
Be it outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic—human or zoonotic—the goal is to get reliable information on infectious diseases, quickly. Abt experts Laura Edwards and Sung-Woo Cho discuss strategies for harnessing machine learning and data visualization to provide actionable information—at scale—that can help stem a health crisis.
Career Pathways: What We Know So Far and Options for Closing Gaps in Knowledge
Project
Career pathways strategies offer articulated education and training steps between occupations in an industry sector, combined with support services, to enable individuals to enter and exit at various levels and to advance over time to higher skills,…
Evaluating the Workforce Innovation Fund
Project
The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…
Demystifying A.I.: A Tool for Social Impact
Impact Brief
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we live, work, and interact with technology. As AI’s capabilities expand, so do its ethical and societal implications. In this master class, Dr. Nora Connor, Abt Global’s director of data science and AI, explores how AI evolved and how we can ensure its use for good.
Making Resilient Health Systems in Zambia a Reality
Project
Through a health systems strengthening approach, the US Government's Zambia Integrated Systems Strengthening Program (ZISSP) increased the use of quality, high-impact health services throughout the country.
Closing the Gap: Surveying LA Renters to Improve Housing Access
Impact Brief
Abt helped HACLA collect and analyze current Los Angeles rental data, showing rents were about 12% higher than federal estimates and providing evidence to support voucher subsidy levels that better reflect local housing costs and improve access to stable housing.
Transition by Design, Not Drawdown: Lessons From Mozambique
Blog
Abt Global’s proven health systems solutions — spanning financing, efficiency, resilience, private sector engagement, and digital integration — equip partner governments to sustain health gains and transition donor-funded programs to full country ownership.