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The Service Design Studio (the Studio) is a novel approach to enhancing the capacity of New York City (NYC) municipal staff to adopt service design—sometimes referred to as human-centered design or design thinking—as a strategy to improve city services,…

For more than 25 years, Abt staff have been leaders and innovators in the NRDA field. We have assisted federal, state, and tribal natural resource agencies (who serve as trustees of natural resources on behalf of the public) with scientific, economic, legal, and strategic support on more than 150 NRDA cases around the country and in U.S. territories.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) 2015 EvidenceNOW: Advancing Heart Health initiative funded regional cooperatives that help small primary care practices integrate evidence-based approaches for cardiovascular care. The initiative…

For the Department of the Interior, streamlined data access and user-friendly tools that strengthen coastal protection, marine minerals access, and environmental resilience. ​

In Madagascar and Tanzania, Abt used solar power during IRS campaigns to cool insecticide storerooms and charge mobile devices for data collection.

Abt’s strategic communications and behavior change practice specializes in helping organizations reach the right audiences, at the right time, and in the most impactful way to raise awareness, educate or change behavior.​ Drawing from communication best practices, evidence-based solutions and social marketing theory, Abt’s communication experts tailor solutions to maximize real-world impact and meet communication objectives. Abt’s deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative research offer a differentiated understanding of audiences ensuring audience engagement and co-creation from the beginning of communication planning. Clear and impactful messaging, creative materials, and innovative dissemination tactics through partners and digital platforms maximize audience reach anywhere around the globe. Rigorous evaluation ensures long-term sustainable outcomes and programmatic impact for international, federal, state, and local agencies.

The changing face of governance discourse due to impacts of COVID-19.

Child care providers provide vital, professional services that have a real impact on families; this blog explains why we need to compensate them accordingly.