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| Jan 29, 2025 | Киевский авиационный институт запустит научный парк со стартовыми инвестициями в €1 млн | И. о. президента КАИ Ксения Семенова заявила: "Мы планируем создать научный парк, который будет решать проблемы рынка, то есть давать решения для улучшения технологий здесь и сейчас. Украинские инженерные компании смогут открыть на тер... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | Abt Receives USAID Award to Strengthen Tuberculosis Control in Uzbekistan | "This new program will help strengthen a more resilient and sustainable TB health system to address the main social drivers of this epidemic,” said Mariandrea Chamorro, vice president of Abt’s Global Development Delivery Practice.
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| Jun 28, 2023 | Hoai B. Huynh Joins Abt Associates as Solutions Lead for Technical Assistance and Implementation | ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) June 28, 2023
Hoai B. Huynh has joined Abt Associates as Vice President of Technical Assistance and Implementation (TA&I), overseeing the growth and delivery of high-quality consulting, training, and management so... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Lauren Pittenger Joins Abt Associates as Vice President, Human Services Portfolio | “Lauren will help our client account teams deliver evidence-based, equity-centered solutions and support to a wide variety of human services topics, missions, and programs that will improve the wellbeing of the most vulnerable," said C... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Mask Use, Vaccination, and Boosters Reduce Risk of Reinfection for Frontline Workers | “Protecting workers from SARS-CoV-2 reinfection requires a multipronged public health approach including up-to-date vaccination, mask use as recommended, and reduction in underlying health disparities.”
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| Jan 17, 2023 | Sam Hanna Joins Abt Associates as Chief Solutions Officer | ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) January 17, 2023
Dr. Sam Hanna has joined Abt Associates as Chief Solutions Officer. Hanna will serve on Abt’s Executive Leadership Team and will oversee the Research, Digital, Technical Assistance, and Equity teams f... |
| Jan 11, 2023 | U.S. Prison Population Rate At Lowest Level in Three Decades, Report Finds | Prison populations shrank in 32 states from December 2020 to December 2021 after falling in 49 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the previous 12 months. One major reason: the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| Jan 10, 2023 | Helping renters build assets and move out of poverty by scaling HUD’s best kept secret | It’s been well documented that assets such as cash savings or real estate are essential to economic mobility. They provide a cushion in emergencies and allow people to become homeowners, start businesses, and pursue advanced education. Yet ... |
| Jan 8, 2023 | Jacqui De Lacy Named Abt Associates' Chief Global Development Officer | Jacqui De Lacy has been named Abt Associates' Chief Global Development Officer, a new role on Abt's Executive Leadership Team. She will lead Abt's diverse portfolio of health, governance, climate and environment, economic gro... |
| Jan 7, 2023 | Jacqui De Lacy Named Abt Associates’ Chief Global Development Officer | “Jacqui will play a key role in Abt’s five-year strategy to harness the full strength of Abt’s work in international development around the world,” said Abt President and Chief Executive Officer Kathleen Flanagan.
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| Jan 5, 2023 | Abt Associates Awarded Contract to Prevent Malaria through Vector Control | "This award affirms USAID’s confidence in our ability to implement effective malaria control strategies and provide innovation to make the interventions cost-effective," said Allyson Bear, senior vice president for international d... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | James Gilling Joins Abt Associates as Regional Vice President, East Asia and Pacific | “James has dedicated his career to promoting social and economic progress in poor countries,” said Jacqui De Lacy, Chief Global Development Officer. “His knowledge of the Pacific and South East Asia will enable us to provide even greater su... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Abt Associates Holds Webinar on Apprenticeships —Evaluation Shows American Apprenticeship Initiative Helps Workers and Employers— | Abt's Dec. 6 webinar will discuss our evaluation of the American Apprenticeship Initiative and show how apprenticeships benefit workers and employers.
ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) December 01, 2022
Interest is growing in apprenticeships as a... |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Abt Associates Part of Team to Track Long-Term COVID-19 | ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) November 10, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Abt Associates a five-year contract to serve as the data coordinating center for surveillance of post-COVID-19 conditions (PCC). PCC m... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Abt To Manage Nursing Home Network for Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and Other Infectious Diseases through New CDC Award | “This project will enable CDC to quickly understand the spread of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, in this vulnerable population," said Dr. Danielle Hunt, vice president of Abt’s Public Health Portfolio.
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| Oct 28, 2022 | Abt Team Partners with Power Africa to Bring Renewable Energy and Digital Connectivity to 10,000 Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa | Abt, RESOLVE, bechtel.org, and Orange are mobilizing private sector investment to deliver reliable, renewable power and digital connectivity for 10,000 health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa. Our alliance with USAID Power Africa, African g... |
| Oct 28, 2022 | Abt Team Partners with Power Africa to Bring Renewable Energy and Digital Connectivity to 10,000 Health Facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa | “Low-carbon, climate-resilient economies are imperative for the future, as is providing quality health care and financial well-being,” said Abt’s Chief Climate Officer Eric J. Reading. “Abt is excited to promote both through this alliance w... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Abt Associates Study Finds Apprenticeships Raise Employee Wages, Deliver Positive Employer Returns on Investment | "In the current tight labor market, registered apprenticeship shows promise to help employers identify and develop workers for a variety of occupations and improve company culture,” said Karen Gardner, the study director.
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| Oct 20, 2022 | Andrew Keck Joins Abt Associates as Regional VP for West Africa, Middle East, and North Africa | Andrew Keck, a global development executive with more than 30 years of experience, has joined Abt Associates as regional vice president for West Africa, Middle East, and North Africa.
ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) October 20, 2022
Andrew Keck, a g... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Multiple COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Reduce Symptoms, Length of Illness, and Need for Medical Care | "Everyone wants to get back to normal even though hundreds of people still die from COVID-19 in the U.S. every day,” says Abt Health Economics Principal Associate Lauren Olsho, a co-author of the article. “COVID-19 is still very much w... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | CDC Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccines Reduce Chance of Infection; Finds No Evidence They Reduce Transmission | ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) September 28, 2022
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study of COVID-19 transmission in households with children found that the virus that causes COVID-19 was transmitted from people of all ages an... |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Studies Show the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Approach to Prevention of Substance Use Disorders Works for Adolescents | “These new studies suggest strongly that SBIRT is an evidence-based approach to intervene that helps young people,” said Project Director Kaitlin Sheedy, an Abt senior associate.
ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) September 22, 2022
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| Sep 8, 2022 | HUD, Abt Study: Gains Made Along Age and Gender Lines in Homebuyer Education Program, but Racial and Ethnic Barriers to Homeownership Persist | “While the results of this study indicate there’s no single, monolithic solution to educating homebuyers, the improvements for women and younger people imply greater customization for certain population segments might work well,” said Abt’s... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Abt Awarded USAID Contract to Advance Resilient, Healthier Northern Ghana | ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) July 15, 2022
Ghana has halved the number of its citizens living in poverty and improved chronic malnutrition rates. However, the country’s northern region is home to 75 percent of its poorest citizens, and food insec... |
| Jul 12, 2022 | Abt To Continue Operating v-safe COVID-19 Pregnancy Registry Call Center—Wins 3-year, $10M Award from CDC | “It’s critical to get the data because pregnant people aren’t part of clinical trials to determine efficacy and safety," notes Project Director Gabriella Newes-Adeyi. Fortunately, the data so far suggest the vaccines are safe during pr... |
| Jun 21, 2022 | Through New USAID Contract, Abt Will Partner with Cambodian Private Sector to Strengthen Agriculture and Food Systems | Our collaboration with the private sector "should lead to more broadly based economic growth and improved livelihoods, including for women and youth,” said Mariandrea Chamorro, Abt’s Regional Vice President for Europe, Asia, Latin Amer... |
| May 2, 2022 | Abt Wins $16M Senegal Government to Government Operations Contract | “We look forward to helping the Government of Senegal continue to develop its capacity to improve the wellbeing of its people on various fronts, from health to education,” said Allyson Bear, acting senior vice president, international devel... |
| Apr 28, 2022 | New Alliance with USAID to Power Clean Energy, Digital Connectivity for Sub-Saharan Health Facilities | “Providing solar power to 10,000 health facilities is an ambitious but achievable goal,” said Paul Faeth, Abt’s global technical director for climate and energy and the company’s lead for this effort.
ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) April 28, 2022
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| Apr 19, 2022 | New Abt Tool Helps Tribes Maximize Benefits of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law | “This funding addresses vital concerns, and Abt is thrilled that these opportunities are available,” said Abt’s Dr. Kaylene Ritter. “[But] we need to ensure that funding can be linked to beneficiaries if we want them to reap the benefits.”
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| Apr 7, 2022 | Study for CDC Shows Continued COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness | In a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Abt Associates and their partners reported that a study of essential and frontline workers showed that three doses of COVID-19 vaccine are more effective tha... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Matt Gillingham Joins Abt Associates as Vice President, Digital Innovation and Analytics | “Our clients need new ways to work with data sets and then apply the analytics to produce insights that inform decision-making,” said Kirsten Schroeder, senior vice president, Data and Digital Services. “Matt can develop creative digital so... |
| Apr 1, 2022 | Tamara Cohen Daley Joins Abt Associates as Principal Associate for Behavioral Health | “Tamara’s expertise and experience will enable Abt to help clients and their program beneficiaries address the ‘other pandemic’ and the difficult challenges it presents,” says Abt Chief Growth Officer Paul Kolebuck.
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| Feb 9, 2022 | Abt Associates Study Shows Large Gender and Racial Disparities in Wage Growth | A new report on workers starting with similar pay shows Black and Hispanic women experience the least wage growth, women fare worse than men, and other career outcomes such as time spent not working can't explain the wage growth gaps.
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| Feb 3, 2022 | Abt Associates' Garett Presson to Enhance and Expand Company's IT as New Global CIO | Garett Presson has been promoted to CIO at Abt Associates. “Garett is a proven leader who has taken our IT platforms to the next level,” said President and CEO Kathleen Flanagan. “He brings a client-facing perspective to systems design to e... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | As Emergency Rental Assistance Programs Ramp Up, Abt Study Finds the Allocation Formula Is a Main Driver of Underspending | “In the future, it may be advisable to consider alternative allocation models" said Abt’s Jeffrey Lubell. "For example, emergency rental assistance could be allocated based on the number of extremely low-income households in each ... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Medicare Program that Promotes Rural Health Care Delivers $381.5M in Net Savings | "[T]he significant savings tell us ACOs can succeed without downside risk,” says Matt Trombley, Abt’s lead investigator. “The question to be answered is whether Medicare can ... continue encouraging and maintaining ACO participation ..... |
| May 14, 2014 | aWhere: The Climate Corp for the Other 500 Million Farmers | In comparison to the rest of the world, American farmers have it made when it comes to access to ag-technology. And in light of the global food security crisis, that’s a problem that affects everyone.
aWhere is a company trying to fix part ... |
| Electrek green energy brief: California ‘cap and trade’ not a tax, tax credit worth 29GW of green energy, more | Solar and wind tax credit extension worth 29GW of utility scale wind/solar from 2016-2020 – Another interesting number, $23B in economic activity in the USA from wind and solar in 2017. Roughly – $5B will be given to solar power installatio... |