Welcome to the Abt Associates' In the News Section. Many members of our staff are frequently quoted as expert sources for news articles. Below are summaries of selected articles in which our experts are cited. Many of these summaries list on-line access information: access is sometimes free, but sometimes a small fee is charged once the article is archived. For more information or for a hard-copy of the original article, contact Corporate Communications at 617-520-2982, or e-mail newsroom@abtassociates.com.
"Safe drinking water challenge: Easy, cost-effective water treatment methods discussed."
Daily News (Palistan), September 1, 2010
Abt Associates Inc Jamila Khatoon Warsi said that few days after the rains had begun, Switzerland had issued its initial response to the looming disaster in Pakistan. She said that around 12,000 flood victims in the northern districts of D I Khan and Karak received drinking water, food and hygiene products at the end of July.
"Government Study Withheld for Year: 70 Percent of Parents and 54 Percent of Teens Say Sex Before Marriage is Wrong."
By Jane McGrath , CSNNews.com, August 31, 2010
The final report on the study, prepared by the research and consulting firm Abt Associates, is dated Feb. 26, 2009, a full year and a half before it was released in its entirety by ACF on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010.
"Gov't-Funded Study on Sex, Abstinence Released Following Protest."
By Eric Young, The Christian Post, August 29, 2010
The 2009 study, titled the “National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions about Sex and Abstinence,” was prepared by Cambridge, Mass.-based Abt Associates for the Family and Youth Services Bureau, the Administration for Children and Families, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The 196-page report entitled “National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions About Sex and Abstinence” was funded by the HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and conducted by researchers with the Cambridge, Mass.-based Abt Associates.
Acompañada por la representante de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional, Elizabeth Bauch; el director general de la Sociedad Mexicana de Normalización y Certificación S. C., Jaime González Basurto y del Consultor ABT Associates Inc. y presidente del Comité Técnico de Normalización Nacional para Energía Solar, Odón de Buen Rodríguez, la funcionaria local indicó que a través de la instalación de tres mil 178 colectores solares para el calentamiento de agua en unidades habitacionales por parte del Instituto de Vivienda, se ha logrado una reducción de cuatro mil 279 toneladas de bióxido de carbono.
Accompanied by the representative of the United States Agency for International Development, Elizabeth Bauch; the general manager of the Mexican Society of Normalization and Certification Century. C., Jaime González Basurto and of the Consultant Abt Associates Inc. and president of the Technical Committee of National Normalization for Solar energy, Odón de Buen Rodríguez, the local official indicated that across the installation of 3,178 solar collectors for warming water in housing units on the part of the Institute of Housing, a reduction of four thousand 279 tons of carbon dioxide has been achieved.
"Obama Administration Reveals All in Major Abstinence Study."
By Peter J. Smith, LifeSiteNews.com, August 23, 2010
The 196-page report entitled “National Survey of Adolescents and Their Parents: Attitudes and Opinions About Sex and Abstinence” was funded by the HHS’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and conducted by researchers with the Cambridge, Mass.-based Abt Associates.
"Abt Associates to Evaluate Ground-Breaking Pilot Program Aimed at Encouraging Healthier Eating."
Forbes.com, August 20, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service has selected Abt Associates to lead a team evaluating a ground-breaking pilot program aimed at encouraging healthier eating among lower-income Americans.
"One in five Americans believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim: poll."
By Aliyah Shahid, New York Daily News, August 19, 2010
In a separate poll, conducted by Time magazine/ABT SRBI, after the president's remarks about the mosque, 24% of those polled said Obama is a Muslim, 47% said they think he's a Christian and 24% had no idea or declined to answer.
About half the grant will go to Abt Associates Inc., a consulting company that will conduct three surveys during the research period to determine whether the produce consumption of those receiving the subsidy is markedly different from that of other families.
"Jay L. Knott Joins Abt Associates as Executive Vice President of Global Business"
IT News Online, August 9, 2010
Abt Associates Inc., a world-wide for-profit government research and consulting firm, has appointed Jay L. Knott Executive Vice President of Global Business. Knott, currently USAID Mission Director in Jordan, will assume his new role in December 2010.
"Literature Review Examines Value of Managed Care Pharmacy Tools"
TMC News, August 2, 2010
The Academy contracted with Abt Associates in 2009 to examine peer-reviewed research on several managed care pharmacy tools and activities, such as tiered drug formularies, prior authorizations and drug utilization reviews. AMCP released the findings as a July/August Supplement to the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy (JMCP).
But findings to date — including studies from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Demographia, Abt Associates Inc. and the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as data reported by the Australia Conservation Foundation — suggest tighter land-use regulations or denser populations have little if any effect on energy use or emissions.
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"IFC Partners with ADIPSA, Abt Associates and Technoserve to Support Agribusiness Sector in Mozambique"
PressReleasePoint.com, July 28, 2010
But findings to date — including studies from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Demographia, Abt Associates Inc. and the U.S. Department of EnergyThe IFC SME Management Solutions Program,funded through Private Enterprise Partnership for Africa, will supportthree agribusiness programs in partnership with Apoio A?s Iniciativas Privadasno Sector Agra?rio - ADIPSA (Danida Program) to increase smallholders´ incomefrom marketing agricultural production; Abt Associates (USAID-AgriFUTUROProgram) to improve value chains of banana, cashews, ground nuts, maize,mangoes, pineapples, sesame and soy beans and Tecnhoserve to support poultry,forestry linkages and grind mill sectors.
By Kasuba Mulenga, Zambia Daily Mail, June 28, 2010
Mr Koplovsky said the US government has awarded a contract to Abt Associates Incorporated to implement the five-year,
US$88 million programme that will improve Zambian health care system.
The study of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative found “few differences in outcomes for schools,
students and teachers between ELT” schools and other schools, according to a report by Abt Associates.
"Abt Associates Welcomes New Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications Mary Maguire"
Technology Today, June 23, 2010
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mary F. Maguire, an award winning communicator, has joined Abt Associates as Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications. Maguire brings a breadth of senior-level communications and public relations experience to the firm.
"Improving programs and raising up fragile countries"
By Beth Healy, Boston Globe, May 23, 2010
Kathleen Flanagan was named chief executive of Abt Associates, a Cambridge research and consulting firm, in October. She got the top job after 26 years at the firm, where she started as a health policy analyst in 1983.
"In Dushanbe to discuss the situation with the spread of tuberculosis in Central Asia"
By Mavdzhuda Khasanov, AsiaPlus.tj, April 27, 2010
According to a source at the conference will be attended by representatives of the Ministries of Health of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, experts working in the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis and from China, Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States, as well as representatives of international organizations and donors working to combat tuberculosis, such as WHO, the German Bank for Development, Center for Disease Control, KNCV Fund to fight tuberculosis, Project Hope, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Caritas Luxembourg, Partners in Health, International Organization for Migration and the Organization of Abt Associates.
By Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT, April 8, 2010
Another three research and consulting vendors —Abt Associates, Westat, and RTI International-- will provide educational tools and resources to the center.
"Convenio de UNT promoverá Programa de Inmunización"
noticiastrujillo.com, April 6, 2010
UNT y Abt Associates especializan a personal de salud para mejorar procesos de vacunación
Esta mañana en el Paraninfo de la UNT se firmó el Convenio de Cooperación Académica entre la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo y Abt Associates Inc. como una de las tareas que esta casa de estudios tiene entre sus objetivos, la proyección social.
Abt Associates specialize UNT and health personnel to improve vaccination processes
This morning in the auditorium of the UNT was signed an Academic Cooperation Agreement between the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and Abt Associates Inc. as one of the tasks that this university has among its objectives, the social projection.
"P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water Program Provides Two Billionth Liter of Clean Water"
CNNMoney.com, March 31, 2010
"...On World Water Day we launched work with USAID, Catholic Relief Services, and Abt Associates to improve preparedness in Latin America by creating depots of the PUR packets in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua and training partner organizations on how to respond in disaster situations."
By Douglas Quan, Canwest News ServiceMarch, Montreal Gazette, March 19, 2010
Michael Shively, senior associate at Abt Associates in Cambridge, Mass., is doing a study on prostitution intervention programs across the U.S.
He says he's aware of about 350 cities and counties that routinely publicize the names — and, in some cases, pictures — of accused johns. Though not totally proven, he said such a tactic probably does have the effect of deterring some men.
By Natalie Sehn Weber, Pasadena City College Courier, March 18, 2010
A recent evaluation by Abt Associates/Brandeis University showed that SGVCC's program was proven to be beneficial for its students by increasing employment skills and opportunities by reducing negative and illegal behavior, its website said.
By John Sharp, Peoria Journal Star, March 16, 2010
Council members and other city representatives were invited to attend the Continuum's monthly meeting, highlighted with a presentation from Brooke Spellman, senior associate with Abt Associates Inc.
By Gretel C. Kovach, San Diego Union-Tribune, March 12, 2010
In October, the U.S. Army Medical Research Materiel Command awarded a four-year, $5 million contract to study the effects of war-zone deployments on military spouses and children to Abt Associates, which will collaborate with the San Diego Naval Health Research Center and Duke University, among others.
"CDC Awards Abt Associates Additional Contracts to Evaluate Effectiveness of H1N1 Vaccine"
Sun Herald, March 5, 2010
New Studies Include Evaluation of Vaccine Among Health Care Workers and Children
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 5 -- /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Abt Associates two new contracts to evaluate the effectiveness of the H1N1 vaccine among health care workers and children under the age of 18.
This story was alco carried by TheStreet.com and other sources.
"Dr. Allyson Ross Davies to Lead Abt Associates Domestic Health Policy Practice"
Citybizlist Boston, March 4, 2010
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Allyson Ross Davies, Ph.D., M.P.H., has joined Abt Associates as Vice President and leader of its Health Policy Practice within its Domestic Health Division. Dr. Davies is a nationally recognized expert in the development of patient-based assessments of health status and quality of care, and their use for performance evaluation and quality improvement.
"Global Health Leaders Maurice Middleberg and Kate Tulenko Join IntraHealth"
Carolina Newswire, February 23, 2010
In addition to lead partner IntraHealth International, the CapacityPlus core partnership includes Abt Associates, IMA World Health, Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), and Training Resources Group, Inc. (TRG).
"Dominion stokes the coal industry, but says it's a friend to the environment"
By Erika Howsare, Charlottesville News & Arts, February 16, 2010
He points to a study By Abt Associates, commissioned By the Wise Energy Coalition, which found that efficiency measures would cost Dominion $35-60/megawatt-Hour — compared with the $100/MWh cost of building and running the Virginia City plant — and that efficiency measures would be substantially better for Virginia’s Gross State Product and employment picture.
Loss mitigation and loan modification were "much less frequently pursued" than foreclosure, says the report, prepared for the Baltimore Homeownership Preservation Coalition.
Why? Much has been written about that. The report's authors, J. Michael Collins of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Christopher E. Herbert of Abt Associates Inc., note that financial incentives — and disincentives — are one of the barriers.
This story was covered By TecTrends and a number of other sources.
"The Full Yield, Inc. Launches Breakthrough Collaboration to Put Food Back at the Heart of Healthcare"
PR Newswire, IT News Online, February 8, 2010
In addition to offering the program to their own employees, Harvard Pilgrim insured employers, including John Hancock, The
City of Boston, Draper Laboratory, and Abt Associates, as well as Roche Bros., are some of the companies offering the Full Yield Program to their employees.
"An Industry Unraveling: Once a symbol of national pride, cotton’s prospects are coming apart at the seams"
By Passant Rabie, Business Today Egypt, February 4, 2010
According to a report issued in 2000 from the Ministry of Agriculture and consulting agency Abt Associates, privatization initially had a positive effect on the cotton industry.
“The MPE privatization program, policy reforms affecting cotton marketing and trade and overall economic liberalization in Egypt are having a positive impact on the spinning industry in Egypt,” said the report.
By Shirley Sagawa, Center for American Progress, February 3, 2010
These programs work. A random assignment study By Abt Associates and Brandeis University confirmed the value of youth service and conservation corps for young people, especially for African-American men.
"Report: $81 million in health care expenses anticipated from port pollution"
By Dr. William J. Hueston, Post and Courier, January 29, 2010
The Abt report estimates the public health impact from the proposed terminal By using the air quality information provided in the State Ports Authority's Final Environmental Impact Statement.
By Allyson Bird, Post and Courier, January 27, 2010
The report, produced By Massachusetts-based Abt Associates, finds that the new terminal planned at the former Navy base would account for $27 million in medical expenses and that the existing terminals would account for $54 million in health care-related costs.
"USAID Jordan Launches 5-year Health Systems Strengthening Project II"
Jordan Directions, January 25, 2010
The project is implemented By Abt Associates Inc. and has united with partners with strong and complementary expertise that include Initiatives Inc., O’Hanlon Health, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh & Company International and Baha Consulting Engineering.
It has been a common understanding, bolstered By research studies such as that done By Abt Associates and the Brookings Institution for the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2008, that alumni of stipended volunteerism programs such as AmeriCorps “are significantly more civically engaged and more likely to pursue public service careers in the government and nonprofit sector than their counterparts.”
