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Strong agricultural productivity and market systems are essential for countries working to improve resilience, enhance livelihoods, and better dietary health. At the forefront of agricultural innovation and food security solutions, Abt partners at local, national, and regional levels to strengthen capacity and develop sustainable food systems. Our approach expands climate-smart practices and improves governance of natural resources. We work with local actors to address market failures and improve business networks, norms that govern outcomes, and supportive services such as financing and technology adoption.

Abt Global facilitates economic growth that enhances the competitiveness of high-growth industries, empowers local stakeholders, and advances the green economy around the world. Our market-driven approaches link enterprises to markets, facilitate innovative financing, expand trade, mobilize private sector resources, and promote a supportive enabling environment. We partner with host governments, private investors, enterprises, and local organizations to drive public-private collaboration that supports innovation and encourages investment. Our collaborations bolster transparent governance, and promote and ensure sound environmental stewardship--all prerequisites for sustainable economic development.

Prenatal care to hospice care. Infectious diseases—HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, dengue, flu—that threaten global health security, along with the next pandemic. Conditions that shorten and worsen life, including heart disease, cancer, and drug use. Policies and systems that govern and fund diagnoses and treatment. As a full-spectrum health partner, Abt Global pioneers research and facilitates solutions to health challenges in the U.S. and around the world, teaming with private and public providers to improve health services and systems. Our multi-sectoral expertise enables our holistic approach to health interventions where they intersect with housing, education, nutrition, justice involvement, environment, and employment. It’s the first part of our mission: Better health for people worldwide.

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.

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.

Abt Global partners with governments, donors, and communities around the world in their efforts to prevent, detect, and respond to global health security threats. Our multi-sectoral approach helps countries comply with International Health Regulations by addressing weaknesses identified through Joint External Evaluation (JEE) and State Parties Self-Assessment (SPAR) tools. Abt brings together in-country public and private sector expertise on zoonotic diseases and environmental health across all functions of the health system. With these actors, we co-develop sustainable approaches that strengthen global health security, including disease surveillance. We build the capacity, relationships, and trust required to identify risks early and to mount timely and effective responses.

As demographics change and healthcare systems merge and consolidate, the U.S. needs an agile workforce undergirded by responsive and innovative healthcare policies to improve health outcomes and quality. Abt’s policy and workforce experts help clients and partners comprehensively plan for—and solve—today’s most urgent healthcare priorities, including soaring costs and complex health conditions. Our research, data analysis, and technical assistance guide solutions like staffing models, quality indicators for long-term care facilities, and alternative payment models.

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.

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.

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.