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A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study confirms that mask use, vaccinations, and boosters reduce the risk of COVID-19 reinfection.

Sarah Kozyn’s and Sean Callahan’s Marketlinks blog details how engaging the private sector has helped health systems, renewable energy, and more across sectors.

Some Cambodian parents fear they can’t give their kids food, clothes, and education – a future. So these desperate parents hand their children over to orphanages, though they aren’t orphans. The children often face poor care and family separation at best…

Abt presents vital workforce development data, interrogating employer return on investment in registered apprenticeship programs.

Pregnant women with two COVID-19 vaccine doses have vaccine-induced antibodies, a CDC study co-written by Abt shows, but antibodies transferred to infants wane quickly.

Housing Choice Vouchers let residents choose housing units that meet rent and quality guidelines. Using a single metropolitan-wide standard to set the maximum subsidy for voucher holders can limit recipients’ access to neighborhoods with high-performing…

Career pathways strategies offer articulated education and training steps between occupations in an industry sector, combined with support services, to enable individuals to enter and exit at various levels and to advance over time to higher skills,…

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…

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 data on how common COVID-19 was out in the community and how the virus transmits among members of the same household, even among asymptomatic individuals. CDC also examined differences in disease…