To improve Washington Metro Area Transit Authority’s preparedness to respond to future pandemics, the Authority contracted with Abt Associates to identify and capture the lessons learned from its response to the H1N1 outbreak of 2009.
The widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR) depends on well-defined measures of meaningful use. The AHRQ engaged Abt Associates as a subcontractor to Data Consulting Group Inc. to analyze a subset of the measures and assess the sources of potential measure variability.
Abt Associates is evaluating the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s
$25 million Rapid Re-housing for Families Demonstration (RRHD) program. This 23-site program aims to move homeless families with moderate barriers to housing out of shelter quickly and back into private market housing.
Abt Associates’ International Economic Growth (IEG) Division has won a major contract from USAID to expand its existing Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali (IICEM) project to help the country face extreme food security challenges.
Through the Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM) program Abt Associates is helping to increase agricultural productivity and trade in Southern Sudan. The five-year USAID-funded FARM program will also improve the capacity of the private and public sectors to support market-led agriculture in Southern Sudan.
Abt Associates has been selected to support a policy research initiative for the Assets for Independence (AFI) demonstration. AFI provides grants to nearly 400 nonprofit organizations to conduct projects focused on helping low-income families achieve greater financial independence through Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) and financial education.
Abt Associates statisticians are assisting CDC in providing timely estimates of the prevalence of H1N1 virus symptoms and other health conditions at the national and state level. Data on these topics are collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a major CDC surveillance survey conducted since 1984.
Abt Associates staff, under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, are working with the National Commission on Children and Disasters to prepare a report advising President Barack Obama and Congress on the unique needs of children in natural or manmade disasters.
Congress mandated that the Social Security Administration (SSA) conduct a study to determine whether recipients of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits will increase their work effort and earnings if they are able to retain more of their benefits while doing so.
Abt Associates designed the policy test—called the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)—and recently was awarded the contract to implement the demonstration and evaluate its effects.
Abt Associates will support the Government of Tanzania’s progression towards decentralization and devolution, through a USAID-funded project called “Wajibika,” which means “be accountable” in Swahili.
