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Older adults are at high risk for contracting novel coronavirus and for developing severe illnesses if infected. To inform policy starting early in the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed more data on medical care for hospitalized patients 50 or older in rural…

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…

CDC’s analysis of COVID-19 surveillance data informs public health policies, communication about protective behaviors, and guidance to public health and healthcare providers, communities, businesses, and schools. CDC contracted with Abt to conduct five…

Older adults are among those with the highest risk for medically attended COVID-19. From early in the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC needed data to characterize risk factors and clinical epidemiology of COVID-19 among older adults. The information would inform…

The COVID-19 pandemic is producing an unprecedented need for rapid short-term and longer-range actions on the part of government agencies, foundations, grantees, service providers, and other stakeholders.

Pregnant women may be more vulnerable than the general population to respiratory infections and severe respiratory complications from COVID-19, and CDC needs more research on their potential effects on birth outcomes to continue to guide the public. In…

USAID and the Government of Jordan (GOJ) want to expand access to—and the availability of—quality integrated essential health services at the national and sub-national levels and increase the government’s capacity to deliver these improved services…

Abt helped 25 countries reform their own health financing, improve access to and quality of health services, and prevent and contain disease outbreaks.

The Jordan Private Sector Project for Women's Health is a five-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development with the mandate to help the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan improve the health of Jordanian women and families by increasing…

The Ethiopian private health sector is growing in size and scope. Over one-third of Ethiopian health expenditures go to private providers but the quality and availability of private providers’ priority health services is uneven. The government’s plans…