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Evaluating a Permanent Supportive Housing Pay for Success Initiative in Austin, Texas
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Despite growing evidence of the effectiveness of permanent supportive housing, local governments often have difficulty securing the necessary investments to expand the programs. The Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO), in partnership with the…

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Study Finds Benefits
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to determine if teen pregnancy prevention programs with limited prior evidence of effectiveness can work when replicated with different populations and in different settings. HHS contracted with…

Promoting Children’s Savings Accounts
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Employment rates and earnings rise sharply for those with a post-secondary education. However, the high cost can put it out of reach for many children; fully 97 percent of college students from low-income households are unable to cover their costs…

Drinking Water Treatability Database Update Tackles PFAS
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EPA’s Office of Research and Development needed to expand its online, publicly available Drinking Water Treatability Database (TDB). The goal was to allow the database to better support decision making about emerging contaminants of concern.

USAID Health Financing Improvement Program
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Ethiopia has made much progress in the design and implementation of health care financing (HCF) reforms. These reforms address growing needs for health services, health sector resource constraints, quality of care concerns, and financial barriers to…

Mortgage Journeys: Identifying New Homebuyer Challenges
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Fannie Mae had conducted extensive research with various groups of consumers (e.g., renters, young adults, delinquent borrowers, homeowners, refinancers, etc.), including several survey research projects to examine how consumers shop for mortgages. To…

Transform: Primary Health Care Project
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Achieving the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s ambitious targets to reduce maternal, neonatal, and infant mortality by more than half requires substantial investments at the woreda (district) level. The ministry’s challenges include insufficient government…

Strengthening Tanzania’s Health Supply Chain
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Despite tremendous economic growth, many Tanzanians remain underserved by public services and lack reliable access to essential medicines.

VIDA Program Shows Promising Educational Results
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Low-income workers with only a high school education face poor and declining employment prospects. Policymakers, workforce development organizations, educators and other key stakeholders are interested in how to facilitate a better match between the…

Six Building Blocks for Opioid Management
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Primary care practices need to redesign the way they provide care to balance preventing opioid misuse and potential risks while addressing the needs of patients with chronic pain. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded Abt a…