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Abt Global is conducting contaminant fate and transport analyses for the Pueblo de San Ildefonso. The Pueblo is located immediately downstream of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a federal nuclear facility located in New Mexico. Abt staff, working for…

This article predicts an up-to-30 percent increase in annual losses from riverine flooding due to climate change, and offers approaches to evaluate adaptation.

This report is the first in a series funded by Casey Family Programs that provides a roadmap for a child and family well-being system focused on children from prenatal to age 3.

Abt supports new local partners in taking on incrementally larger roles in health system strengthening efforts.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Locally led infrastructure and governance approaches have stabilized access to clean water, supported schools and rural markets, and built long-term community ownership.

Bangladesh needs to increase the frequency and quality of antenatal care to improve awareness of hypertension and diabetes among child-bearing women.

This brief summarizes expert interviewee observations on marijuana legalzation’s public health effects and notes how they align with other study findings.