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The Impact of Leaking Underground Storage Tanks on Property Values

Project
Underground storage tanks (USTs) containing petroleum and other hazardous substances are everywhere. Accidental releases of the substances from leaking USTs (LUSTs) pose serious health, economic, and environmental risks to local residents. Abt helped the…
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Analysis of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Loads Program

Project
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the U.S., encompassing 64,000 square miles and covering parts of six states and Washington DC. In the 1970s, the Bay was discovered to have one of the world’s first identified marine dead zones. Poor water…
Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria Control in Sub-Saharan Africa 1997 to 2017: An Adjusted Retrospective Analysis

Indoor Residual Spraying for Malaria Control in Sub-Saharan Africa 1997 to 2017: An Adjusted Retrospective Analysis

Publication
This study emphasizes the potential for IRS resistance, can improve malaria incidence studies, and can help guide future malaria control efforts.
Rental Housing Results from Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

Rental Housing Results from Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

Project
Abt is merging databases with information on rental housing results from low-income housing tax credits to inform decision-making. 
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Preparing Oregonians for a Postsecondary Education

Project
In 2006, the Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development (CCWD) launched the Oregon Pathways for Adult Basic Skills Initiative (OPABS) to better help low-skilled adults transition from the state’s Adult Basic Skills (ABS) programs…
Managing Opioid Use and Misuse in Older Adults

Managing Opioid Use and Misuse in Older Adults

Project
Older adults are twice as likely as the general population to have pain, and clinicians often rely on opioid treatment. As a result, opioid use, misuse, and opioid use disorder have increased among older adults, who are vulnerable to adverse reactions…
Research to Address Homelessness in California

Research to Address Homelessness in California

Project
As affordable housing shrinks and poverty persists—particularly in the wake of COVID-19—California continues to face a complex homelessness crisis. To get a true understanding of the scope and nature of the challenge, the California Legislature passed a…
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Monitoring Adult Vaccine Use Helps Save Lives

Blog
Abt Global conducts annual online surveys among pregnant women and health care personnel on vaccination use and attitudes toward vaccines.
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AcademyHealth 2025 Annual Research Meeting (ARM)

Event
Join Abt Global at AcademyHealth’s 2025 Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Minneapolis.
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Fair Housing Training and Technical Assistance

Project
In 2015, HUD rolled out the Assessment of Fair Housing which included a new rigorous and mandatory process for data analysis, mapping, and strategy development  to help grantees make meaningful change and affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH). Abt…