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Wyoming Turns to Abt to Create Statewide Housing Plan

Wyoming Turns to Abt to Create Statewide Housing Plan

Project
The State of Wyoming has turned to Abt Global to help it rapidly and effectively address its housing shortage by creating a statewide action plan. 
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Developing the SafeWater CBX Benefit-Cost Model

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More than 140 unregulated chemicals contaminate public water supplies in 42 states. The risk to consumers is unclear because researchers haven’t figured out the threshold for when they cause harm. To weigh regulatory options, the Environmental Protection…
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Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs

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Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
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4th Sector Health: Alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean

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To leverage corporate and USAID funding bringing additional resources and solutions to health issues of the poor, 4th Sector Health was created. Funded by USAID’s Latin America/Caribbean Regional Bureau, the project promoted and developed public-private…
Teacher Preparation Experiences and Early Teaching Effectiveness

Teacher Preparation Experiences and Early Teaching Effectiveness

Project
Teachers can make a real difference in students’ outcomes. However, teacher quality varies greatly. New teachers, who frequently begin their careers in high-need schools where students are in greatest need of effective instruction, have been shown to be…
Supporting Efforts to Review Evidence in Education

Supporting Efforts to Review Evidence in Education

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The U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002 to serve as a central and trusted source of evidence on best practices in education. As the standard bearer for evidence in education, the WWC needs to stay abreast…
Evaluating Prize Competitions Around the World

Evaluating Prize Competitions Around the World

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The AgResults initiative was created by five donors after the 2010 G20 summit. The donors recognized that their resources alone could not significantly reduce poverty in the world’s poorest countries. They created AgResults to test whether pay-for…
Modernizing NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)

Modernizing NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)

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The majority of American adults take dietary supplements, and the market for these products continues to grow. In the U.S., dietary supplements are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as food, not as drugs, and do not require approval or…
Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model Evaluation - Pre-Implementation Evaluation Report

Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model Evaluation - Pre-Implementation Evaluation Report

Publication
Abt is evaluating CMS’s MOM Model to improve care and reduce costs for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid beneficiaries with OUD and their infants.
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The Cost of Administering the Housing Choice Voucher Program

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The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the federal government’s largest low-income housing assistance program. It gives 2.1 million households subsidies to rent units in the private market. The 2,300 public housing agencies (PHAs) that administer…