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Midori de Habich is technical director of the Abt-led Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS), USAID’s global flagship activity in health systems strengthening.

In 2019, the Natural Resource Defense Council and other organizations filed suit against the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging violations of the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) statutes regarding discharge of hazardous substances. EPA and the…

For Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) welfare reform initiative, Abt Global designed an evaluation that involved process, impact, and cost-effectiveness studies.  These studies addressed how the State implemented ABC and how clients' experiences differed…

Adaptability, diligence, and innovative thinking are necessary for any large-scale integrated health project to produce results. This is especially true in a country such as Mali, with high levels of poverty and limited resources.

Abt Global generates evidence to help clients address tough challenges—in education, housing, child welfare, employment, and health. Our researchers implement effective and efficient processes to collect and analyze vast amounts of data, producing frequently cited studies. Does a program reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition? Does a vaccine wane in effectiveness against a new virus variant? Our global interdisciplinary teams—research methodologists, statisticians, ethnographers, economists, epidemiologists, data scientists, and implementation research scientists— help policymakers answer such questions. They assess whether programs work to improve people’s lives, and if not, how to best resolve them.

On behalf of the Global Methane Initiative, Abt helped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency develop a handbook to assist with accounting for methane emissions and emissions reduction.

This article predicts an up-to-30 percent increase in annual losses from riverine flooding due to climate change, and offers approaches to evaluate adaptation.