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Drinking Water Treatability Database Update Tackles PFAS

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EPA’s Office of Research and Development needed to expand its online, publicly available Drinking Water Treatability Database (TDB). The goal was to allow the database to better support decision making about emerging contaminants of concern.
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Building a Knowledge Base to Teach Adults to Decode

Project
Decoding is an essential skill to read words that a person may only have heard spoken. It is not just important for children. Millions of U.S. adults are non-literate or can perform only simple, literacy tasks. They need decoding skills, too—although…
Patient-Centered Care: It’s Not Just a Buzzword

Patient-Centered Care: It’s Not Just a Buzzword

Blog
The AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting inspired this blog on the benefits of Abt’s approach to including patient perspectives in health care delivery.
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Studying the Moving to Work Demonstration Program

Project
Under federal law enacted in the 1990s, a limited number of public housing agencies (PHAs) have received demonstration authority under which they may experiment with alternatives to the standard rules under which the Housing Choice Voucher and public…
Community Influencers Help Improve Tuberculosis Screening

Community Influencers Help Improve Tuberculosis Screening

Impact Brief
Influencers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are helping increase detection and treatment of tuberculosis.
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Engagement, Interest, and Efficacy in STEM

Project
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) project is a science enrichment program aimed at inspiring, engaging, and educating K–12 students in science, technology,…
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Deeper Insights on Americans’ Financial Well-Being

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) works to help consumers enhance their financial well-being, a holistic metric that goes beyond income and credit score to capture individuals’ perceptions of their financial security and ability to make…
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Well-being of Young Children after Experiencing Homelessness

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Increasing Community and Facility HIV Testing in Mozambique

Increasing Community and Facility HIV Testing in Mozambique

Impact Brief
The Abt-led USAID Efficiencies for Clinical HIV Outcomes project’s scale up of HIV testing in Mozambique has helped save lives.
Instituto del Progreso Latino’s Carreras en Salud Program: Six-Year Impact Report

Instituto del Progreso Latino’s Carreras en Salud Program: Six-Year Impact Report

Publication
The Carreras en Salud program boosted Latino adult employment healthcare and increased receipt of healthcare credentials but had no detectable effect on earnings.