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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.

What is humanity’s best defense against a pandemic or other major threat? You’d be partially right to think: high-tech equipment in gleaming new health facilities, a computer farm in the cloud to collect and share data, highly qualified clinical staff, vast sums for vaccine research and development, and expansive budgets funding expensive national public health systems.

A study of essential workers found that COVID-19 vaccine knowledge, attitudes, and practices responses predict vaccine uptake, which can improve over time.

Our analysis of HPOG subgroups defined by program experiences found weak evidence that long-term credentials led to meaningfully larger earnings impacts.

This article shows a modest increase in property crimes in Washington State neighborhoods where legal marijuana retail stores open.

Primary care providers may not correctly assess their own knowledge of post-traumatic stress disorder; many may benefit from targeted, evidence-based training.

The pandemic may have made it harder for participants in the Health Profession Opportunity Grants program to find good jobs in healthcare.