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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…
Improving Diagnostic Pathways for Rare Diseases in Australia
Project
Abt recommended a variety of ways to improve the diagnostic journey for Tasmanians with a rare disease through a rare disease diagnostic care pathway.
How to Avoid a Respiratory Disease Tripledemic
Blog
Getting RSV, COVID-19, and flu vaccinations is the best way to protect yourself and mitigate the odds of an epidemic of all three respiratory diseases at the same time.
Supporting and Refining the Five-Star Quality Rating System for Nursing Homes
Project
When individuals need long-term care, information on provider quality is critical to making an informed choice. The major ongoing challenge in the project is preparing the monthly updates to Care Compare and its Five-Star Quality Rating System to support…
Tracking COVID-19 in High-Risk Workers
Project
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed timely information on COVID-19 illness characterization and vaccine effectiveness in this highly exposed cohort. CDC also needed data on rates of symptomatic and asymptomatic infection and re-infection…
USAID Health Financing Improvement Program
Project
Ethiopia has made much progress in the design and implementation of health care financing (HCF) reforms. These reforms address growing needs for health services, health sector resource constraints, quality of care concerns, and financial barriers to…
The Cost of Administering the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Project
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…
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,…
Unpacking Core Components for Policy Design: A comparison of Synthesis Approaches
Publication
Evidence reviews of core components of interventions enable policymakers to identify with more precision what works, in which contexts, and for which cohorts.