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Funding Model Helps Bangladesh Expand Primary Health Care
Impact Brief
Some municipalities fund primary health care services in urban areas of Bangladesh.
Spotlight On: Homelessness and Housing Instability in New York City
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Abt draws upon years of national housing experience and expertise to design solutions tailored for New York City.
Spotlight On: Linking Recovery and Employment Services to Address the Opioid Epidemic
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Better Insight on Methane Emissions with SWEET Tool
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Having graduated from EPA’s peer review process, the Abt-designed SWEET tool has been updated to better identify and resolve methane emissions.
Deepwater Horizon Spill Assessment and Restoration Plan
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In 2010, an explosion on a Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. It required a massive response to minimize damage and protect the environment, with involvement by many federal and…
Spotlight On: PFAS, Environmental Contamination, and Health
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Abt has extensive experience investigating and addressing the complex effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the environment and on human health.
Spotlight On: Machine Learning
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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.
Developing the SafeWater CBX Benefit-Cost Model
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More than 140 unregulated chemicals contaminate public water supplies in 42 states. The risk to consumers is unclear because researchers haven’t figured out the threshold for when they cause harm. To weigh regulatory options, the Environmental Protection…
Project Roomkey Evaluation Final Report
Publication
Abt’s evaluation of California’s Project Roomkey found this COVID-19-specific solution for people experiencing homelessness has broader applications.
Spotlight On: CDC COVID-19 Research
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CDC’s real-time surveillance of COVID-19 cases and analyses of surveillance data inform public health policies, communication about protective behaviors, and guidance to public health and healthcare providers, communities, businesses, and schools.