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This webinar discusses the risks, challenges, and potential mitigation strategies associated with investment opps in underinvested sectors and geographies.

Abt’s webinar will focus on promoting private capital investment in underinvested regions and sectors such as healthcare and water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Preparing for the Next Pandemic, College Access for Latine Families, and More! Dive into Abt's Evaluation & Methods Digest to see how our research, monitoring, and evaluation work can help you.

Sheila P. Burke is a strategic advisor in the Washington, D.C. office of Baker Donelson and chair of the firm’s Government Relations & Policy Group. An expert in health policy, Burke is a member of the faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a Distinguished Visitor at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Burke held a number of positions during a 19-year career on Capitol Hill – including staff director of the Senate Finance Committee responsible for legislation relating to Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs – and chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

Michael R. Anderson is Chief Executive Officer of MedAccess, a not-for-profit social-finance company based in London. He has expertise in global development, health, nutrition, and climate issues. Anderson has worked in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in Africa, the Middle East, and India. He held multiple roles within the U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID) from 2003 to 2013, the final one being director general for policy and global programs. He subsequently became the first salaried CEO of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. During his three-year tenure, he grew the organization’s grant commitments from $40 million to $220 million.

In this podcast, Joan Chahenza and Nadiia Zaritska discuss how building resilient energy systems—from Ukraine to sub-Saharan Africa—can support gender equity.

As the climate crisis grows, how can we coordinate systems to go beyond human health to planetary health? Abt experts share their ideas in this podcast.

To reduce greenhouse gases, we need air-tight buildings. To reduce transmission of diseases we need better circulation. In this podcast we discuss the balance.

Health systems function at the mercy of climate change; in this episode of The Intersect, we explain the need for climate integration in global development.