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Design & Implementation Support for Maryland Value-Based Healthcare Programs
Project
Abt helped Maryland design and benchmark a statewide value based care model that saved $689 million and informed national health policy.
Flu. Coronavirus. Data. Could Analytics Change the Trajectory of a Pandemic?
Podcast
Be it outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic—human or zoonotic—the goal is to get reliable information on infectious diseases, quickly. Abt experts Laura Edwards and Sung-Woo Cho discuss strategies for harnessing machine learning and data visualization to provide actionable information—at scale—that can help stem a health crisis.
Bridging Research & Practice: Actionable Insights for Educators
Project
The Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse wanted a systematic review of evidence on interventions designed to improve the social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of students in kindergarten to grade 12. Abt Global and our partners…
Student Outcomes and Charter Schools in New Mexico
Project
Prior studies of charter schools have focused on different types of charter schools than those in New Mexico. For example, many prior research studies elsewhere have focused on charters in urban and suburban areas or on charters run by charter management…
Heart Valve Disease: Increasing Education and Awareness
Project
The Abt team developed, implemented, and evaluated a communication campaign to increase education about and awareness of heart valve disease among the public, those at risk, and healthcare professionals.
World Youth Skills: Celebrating and Building on What We Know
Blog
In observance of World Youth Skills Day, Abt looks at best practices for youth employment, and identifies goals for making more progress.
Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model
Project
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies.
Providing Technical Assistance to HRSA’s Sickle Cell Disease Programs
Project
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited blood condition that affects an estimated 100,000 individuals in the United States, many of whom are Black and Hispanic Americans. While newborn screening for SCD occurs in every state, there…
In a Complex Country, What’s Working for Better Health
Impact Brief
The statistics are head-turning: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, yet the sixth highest poverty rate in the world. Its health outcomes are similarly out of line with its wealth.