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Through the Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby Activity, Khurshed Khojaev promotes community responsibility for maternal and child healthcare and nutrition.

In this month’s episode, Abt experts Jill Berkowitz and Sung-Woo Cho discuss how machine learning can amplify our work combatting malaria—25 million people protected to date—by applying what we’ve learned to other infectious diseases.

Abt evaluated JPMorgan Chase’s PRO Neighborhoods to understand how grantees are addressing their communities’ diverse economic needs by investing in housing.

Misuse of opioid analgesics threatens public health and results in rising numbers of overdose deaths and admissions to emergency departments and treatment facilities. In the absence of adequate patient information systems, patients who engage in “doctor…

Abt Global partners with governments, donors, and communities around the world in their efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to global health security threats. Our multi-sectoral approach helps countries comply with International Health Regulations by addressing weaknesses identified through Joint External Evaluation (JEE) and State Parties Self-Assessment (SPAR) tools. Abt brings together in-country public and private sector expertise on zoonotic diseases and environmental health across all functions of the health system. With these actors, we co-develop sustainable approaches that strengthen global health security, including disease surveillance. We build the capacity, relationships, and trust required to identify risks early and to mount timely and effective responses.

As demographics change and healthcare systems merge and consolidate, the U.S. needs an agile workforce undergirded by responsive and innovative healthcare policies to improve health outcomes and quality. Abt’s policy and workforce experts help clients and partners comprehensively plan for—and solve—today’s most urgent healthcare priorities, including soaring costs and complex health conditions. Our research, data analysis, and technical assistance guide solutions like staffing models, quality indicators for long-term care facilities, and alternative payment models.

To meet priority health goals, the private sector offers valuable resources such as skilled health workers, financing, and infrastructure to deliver services. Abt draws on our strong relationships with local governments around the world and deep understanding of the intricacies of the private health sector to achieve positive health outcomes. We identify opportunities for integrating the private health sector into the total health system and then facilitate strategic partnerships that build on each sector’s comparative strengths and resources. We also introduce innovative tools and solutions, improve the quality, sustainability, and impact of public health interventions, and ensure appropriate government oversight and stewardship.

As the single largest payer for health care in the United States, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) collects massive amounts of data. CMS has over 6,000 employees nationwide responsible for programs that provide insurance coverage to…