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Portrait of WIC Participants and Programs: Capturing Data through the Abt-Designed Automated Reporting System
Project
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health-care referrals, and nutrition education. The beneficiaries: nearly 8 million low-income pregnant,…
AI-Driven Efficiency in Public Service: A Q&A with Nora Connor
Blog
Government agencies can use artificial intelligence to make better decisions and be more efficient while using Abt’s tools to mitigate risk.
Factors That Affect Opioid Quality Improvement Initiatives in Primary Care: Insights from Ten Health Systems
Publication
This study of an Opioid Quality Improvement Collaborative can help providers adopt CDC opioid guidelines and improve their prescribing practices.
Integrated Team Care Program
Project
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have high rates of risk factors associated with chronic illness and have much higher rates of chronic disease than non-Indigenous Australians. These higher rates affect overall life expectancy and mortality…
Enhancing Customer Experience with Farmers.gov
Project
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) faced the challenge of streamlining access to information, tools, and resources for farmers, ranchers, and landowners.
Redesigning the Runaway and Homeless Youth-Homeless Management Information System
Project
The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) is required by Congress to develop and deploy a Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) for its Runaway & Homeless Youth Program (RHY). The agency wants to ensure it collects high data quality—and…
Evaluation of Prevention Activities for Rheumatic Fever
Project
The evaluation of the Rheumatic Fever Strategy pilot program highlights the need for integrating primordial and primary prevention approaches.
Evaluating Programs To Prevent Drug Misuse
Project
As the opioid crisis and misuse of prescription drugs continue, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to ensure its investments in states, tribes, and their grantees created effective prevention programming to…
Evaluating an Innovative Job Corps Pilot Program
Project
Abt Global and its partner, MDRC, evaluated a Job Corps pilot program, the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy (CCCA), for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The Cascades pilot was an ambitious and evidence-based attempt to increase education…
COVID-19 Study of Households
Project
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed data on how common COVID-19 was out in the community and how the virus transmits among members of the same household, even among asymptomatic individuals. CDC also examined differences in disease…