Search

Faced with limited housing supply and soaring rents and home prices, more people, particularly with low incomes, struggle to find or keep an affordable, safe place to live. Ripple effects of the affordable housing crisis include increasing health challenges, declining educational outcomes, and surging homelessness. Abt’s decades of rigorous evidence-building work with federal, state, local, and non-profit partners—combined with our training and technical assistance expertise—inform today’s efforts to make housing more affordable. We continue to shape rental assistance programs like Housing Choice Vouchers and public housing, policies to boost production and preservation of affordable housing, and initiatives to help make homeownership feasible. Our partners and teams enrich our cross-sector, data-driven approach with first-hand insights, enabling us to advance housing affordability for all.

Abt’s rigorous research, insights and technical assistance enable policymakers and practitioners to understand the scope of homelessness in America and identify what works to prevent and reduce it. Our team partners with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to produce national estimates of homelessness. With federal, state, and non-profit clients, we also examine the  effects of homelessness across races, ethnicities, ages, and abilities, including on military veterans, families, and youth. We help federal grantees, communities and nonprofits build capacity to manage prevention and assistance programs to move people from the streets into stable housing. And we partner with those same communities to design scalable, efficient systems that meet their needs and preferences.

Substance use disorders. Mental illness. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Opioid misuse. Suicide. Critical shortages of behavioral health care staff. The U.S. faces an unprecedented behavioral health crisis among youth and adults. As a trusted partner to the federal, state, and local sectors, Abt informs public policy on behavioral health through a comprehensive suite of approaches. We use evaluation design and implementation, scientific evidence, health communications, capacity-building, and collaboration to heal the whole person. Our experts bring their backgrounds in social work, clinical psychology, public health, and sociology to offer integrated prevention, treatment, and intervention.

Abt promotes stable, decent, affordable, and inclusive housing in the U.S. by building evidence for effective housing policy, community development, and asset-building strategies. Our evaluation work in the 1970s informed the creation and implementation of the Housing Choice Voucher program, the nation’s largest tenant-based rental assistance program. Today, our focus is homelessness, including management of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Annual Homelessness Assessment Report. We support initiatives to increase both the overall housing stock and the supply of affordable homes for everyone. All pose complex challenges for policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels.

USAID CATALYST is a global program that helps countries build policy and institutional frameworks that enable greater investment in sustainability and resilience across sectors.

Understanding the intricate dynamics of pathogens and vectors is crucial to furthering effective disease research. Infectious and vector-borne diseases like COVID-19, influenza, malaria, dengue, tuberculosis, and HIV present daily challenges to health systems and community resilience around the world. Abt Global counters these threats to our shared global health security through evidence-based prevention and containment, groundbreaking disease detection and surveillance, and total health-system surge and recovery response stewarded by local government and community leaders. Through a One Health approach, we aim to help our partners build resilient, secure, and sustainable health systems that will allow their communities to thrive for generations.

Abt Global strives to disrupt the root causes of maternal, neonatal, and child mortality and morbidity in the U.S. and around the world. We support comprehensive maternal, child, and reproductive health programs that strengthen health policy and systems, improve access to and quality of essential services, close knowledge gaps, and foster behavior change. Our cross-sectoral approach includes innovative and evidence-based interventions and rigorous evaluation to advance delivery of cost-effective, high-quality services. Our strong network of public and private partners and payers helps us promote meaningful change, and ensure healthier futures for millions of mothers and babies. 

As health systems evolve worldwide, Abt is a trusted partner to governments, donors, and communities, with unmatched expertise in health policy, governance, financing, workforce development, capacity building, and digital and data solutions. We catalyze change by optimizing resources and our network of 1,000+ health systems experts to deliver agile solutions for urgent problems while strengthening complex systems for the future. We work in mixed health systems worldwide to bring transformative change in quality improvement, regulatory processes, inclusive policies, and innovative financial protection mechanisms. We emphasize community and local leadership in solutions we co-design and implement, recognizing their capacity to drive meaningful change.

Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other chronic, non-communicable diseases represent 80% of premature deaths worldwide and place substantial economic burdens on our societies. Abt Global supports early detection, prevention, and treatment of these widespread conditions, to mitigating their impact on quality of life and healthcare expenses. We collaborate with clients like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to inform policy and program decisions through rigorous studies and evaluations. Our mixed methods approach for data collection and strategic communications expertise inform decisions to make healthcare systems more efficient and resilient.

As a longtime partner of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), we advance and expand access to high-quality, affordable healthcare, test innovation in value-based, person-centered care, and improve health outcomes for people across the lifespan. Our multidisciplinary teams provide rigorous research, economic analyses, clinical insight, digital expertise, and holistic approaches to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). We specialize in examining the interconnected issues that shape health, and support CMS’s mission: to deliver high-quality care, innovate and manage healthcare dollars wisely, and achieve optimal health outcomes for Americans.