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Evaluating Programs to Prevent Drug Misuse

Evaluating Programs To Prevent Drug Misuse

Project
As the opioid crisis and misuse of prescription drugs continue, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) wants to ensure its investments in states, tribes, and their grantees created effective prevention programming to…
Updating EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program Annual Data Highlights

Updating EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program Annual Data Highlights

Project
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been collecting greenhouse gas emissions data through the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) from approximately 8,000 emitters—including power plants, oil and gas producers, and manufacturers—since 2010…
Enterprise Data Analytics Management and Maturing Execution

Enterprise Data Analytics Management and Maturing Execution

Project
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…
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Building a 21st Century Road Map to Child Welfare Transformation

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For far too long, the child welfare system has been designed to be reactive, where caseworkers respond after child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences have occurred, with the primary intervention being removal from the home. For young…
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Qualitative Study to Enhance the NYCgov Poverty Measure

Publication
This report from Abt provides qualitative context to New York City’s poverty data, describing challenges the city’s citizens face.
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.
GuideME: EPA’s Tool for TRI Reporting Guidance

GuideME: EPA’s Tool for TRI Reporting Guidance

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced discontinuation of support for legacy Lotus Notes databases, which had previously hosted archives of reporting guidance materials that were inaccessible to the public. The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)…
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AI Helps EPA Standardize and Sharpen Toxic Chemical Data

Impact Brief
Abt used AI to standardize EPA off site chemical transfer data to 97% accuracy, enabling faster analysis and stronger chemical safety decisions.
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From Experiment to Action: How Medicare is Transforming Cancer Care

Impact Brief
Cancer is one of the most expensive and complex conditions to treat. But can better care for cancer patients also cost less?
Tracking COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Infants

Tracking COVID-19 in Pregnant Women and Infants

Project
Pregnant women may be more vulnerable than the general population to respiratory infections and severe respiratory complications from COVID-19, and CDC needs more research on their potential effects on birth outcomes to continue to guide the public. In…