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The Service Design Studio (the Studio) is a novel approach to enhancing the capacity of New York City (NYC) municipal staff to adopt service design—sometimes referred to as human-centered design or design thinking—as a strategy to improve city services,…

We work where applied epidemiology meets practical data systems. Connect with Abt on surveillance, analytics, and public health operations built for real-world use.

Abt’s Virginia portfolio spans behavioral health, health & human services, early childhood, health surveillance, and housing.

With funding from FYSB, ACF’s Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) contracted with Abt Global and its partner, Child Trends to provide local evaluation support to PREP grantees and to disseminate project information.

Prenatal care to hospice care. Infectious diseases—HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, dengue, flu—that threaten global health security, along with the next pandemic. Conditions that shorten and worsen life, including heart disease, cancer, and drug use. Policies and systems that govern and fund diagnoses and treatment. As a full-spectrum health partner, Abt Global pioneers research and facilitates solutions to health challenges in the U.S. and around the world, teaming with private and public providers to improve health services and systems. Our multi-sectoral expertise enables our holistic approach to health interventions where they intersect with housing, education, nutrition, justice involvement, environment, and employment. It’s the first part of our mission: Better health for people worldwide.

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.

Re‐entry services help those released from detention avoid re‐offending, succeed on parole, and remain out of custody. To achieve this, reintegration programs must be responsive to the multiple factors that can influence behaviour change. These services…

Health departments collect surveillance data on individuals with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. However, STI and HIV departments often have policies and practices impeding data sharing. Sharing and linking the data can help identify…