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Cold-Chain Technology to Help Small Farmers
Impact Brief
Post-harvest losses, produce quality, and shelf life have long been chronic problems for smallholder farmers in warm climates.
The Career Pathways Planner: A Guide for Adult Education State Leaders to Promote Local Career Pathways Systems
Publication
Evaluation of Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) Program
Project
For Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) welfare reform initiative, Abt Global designed an evaluation that involved process, impact, and cost-effectiveness studies. These studies addressed how the State implemented ABC and how clients' experiences differed…
Health Systems Research (HSR) 2024
Event
Abt Global is exhibiting and presenting at Health Systems Research (HSR) in Nagasaki, Japan in November 2024.
Association of Participation in the Oncology Care Model with Medicare Payments, Utilization, Care Delivery, and Quality Outcomes
Publication
Abt’s evaluation of CMS’s OCM payment model found that it helped reduce Medicare payments for oncological care.
Do Year-Round Schools Work? Three Questions to Ask
Blog
Abt’s Cara Jackson offers three tips to help educators determine if year-round instruction is desirable—and feasible—for their students.
Active Child Care Workers Lead to Active Toddlers
News
Findings of the Abt-led Study of Nutrition and Activity in Child Care Settings (SNACS) suggest ample room for improvement in provision of physical activity opportunities during child care.
Supporting Aging in Place Through IWISH: Second Interim Report from the Evaluation of the Supportive Services Demonstration
Publication
Abt’s second of three reports on HUD’s IWISH demonstration documents implementation of the IWISH model; experiences of staff, property owners, and residents in IWISH; and compares IWISH to offerings at a comparison group of properties.
Spotlight On: Machine Learning
Spotlight On
Abt uses machine learning to do things that until recently would have been impossible, such as categorizing a vast amount of unstructured text into main themes or counting mosquito eggs from a smartphone picture using image recognition.
Trust and Localization: The Missing Tools in Pandemic Preparedness and Response
News
What is humanity’s best defense against a pandemic or other major threat? You’d be partially right to think: high-tech equipment in gleaming new health facilities, a computer farm in the cloud to collect and share data, highly qualified clinical staff, vast sums for vaccine research and development, and expansive budgets funding expensive national public health systems.