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Cancer is one of the most expensive and complex conditions to treat. But can better care for cancer patients also cost less?

Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…

Effective sustainable development requires local solutions to local problems. Abt applies a political economy lens to all our programs to understand how incentives and motivations interact with rules and structures affect power dynamics, resource distribution, and information asymmetry—and which interests are at stake. We ensure the process of articulating problems and identifying solutions are politically feasible and technically appropriate. Through our commitment to localization, we team with local actors so our shared contextual knowledge informs our understanding of the coalitions or networks that can shape or advance policy and institutional reform. We also use system-aware, contextually appropriate approaches to design, implement, and monitor our programs to achieve better results for everyone.

In Uzbekistan, an Abt-managed USAID project has trained doctors to use digital health to improve follow-up treatment for TB patients.

The Ghanaian government, partnering with USAID, seeks to improve private sector expertise in providing quality health services, including access to diarrhea treatment for children.

Evidence for Program Improvement was established by The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) to develop evidence-based practice guidelines for youth programs (e.g., community, mental health, public health, child welfare settings,…

“One step at a time.” This well-known axiom applies broadly to individual endeavors, such as learning to play a musical instrument or building a home. It also applies to grand aspirations of governments, such as providing citizens access to affordable, quality health care.

Mali might have seemed an unlikely place for farming innovations and new agribusiness approaches to take root because of its outdated farming technologies, limited access to credit, and political instability. Yet Abt Global, through…