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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…

A One Health approach, which includes human, animal, and environmental health, is critical for fighting diseases passed between animals and humans.

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

The Ready to Work (RTW) Partnership Grant program, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) following the 2008-2009 recession, was designed to prepare middle- to high-skilled individuals who had experienced long-term unemployment for occupations in…

COVID-19 shined a light on the various roles schools play for students and elevate school partnerships and school-based health services to meet students’ needs.

COVID-19 may put pregnant women at risk for severe illness or death, but data are limited on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for them. To monitor potential safety issues, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the v-safe COVID-19…

Birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, accounting for 20 percent of all infant deaths in 2018. Approximately 3 percent of babies born in the United States are affected by a major genetic or structural birth defect…

A new CDC study from the pre-Omicron era shows COVID-19 vaccines reduce the chance of COVID-19 infection, and isolation helps prevent transmission.

Nearly 50,000 persons died of opioid overdoses in 2017, which contributed to the first-ever decline in working-age Americans’ life expectancy. A 2012 Abt Global study found wide geographic variation in opioid prescribing in the United States, indicating…