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Municipal wastewater accounts for a substantial amount of methane emissions worldwide. Capturing and using methane from wastewater systems can help mitigate climate change and provide a source of local clean energy. However, cities in developing…

Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…

The Universal Nurse Model offers efficient use of nursing resources to help Kyrgyzstan’s healthcare system cope with COVID-19.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Supporting Massachusetts in developing cumulative impact analysis and protective air permitting tools.

The Abt-led Local Health System Sustainability COVID-19 Response Activity played a key role in helping Uzbekistan combat COVID-19.

Uzbekistan is moving from paying TB hospitals based on occupied beds to compensation based on the number of patients treated.

Abt’s multidisciplinary teams and mixed methods approach can help federal, state, and local agencies address overlapping health and housing challenges.