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Substance use disorders (SUDs) involving opioids, fentanyl, and other controlled substances have harmed individuals, families, and communities in every corner of the U.S. Abt Global champions a data-backed, person-centered approach to confronting the global opioid and substance use crisis. Our interdisciplinary teams are dedicated to addressing SUDs and advancing evidence-based approaches for the entire spectrum of care, from prevention to long-term recovery support. Through more than 40 recent projects, we're addressing the opioid epidemic's root causes, evaluating interventions to reduce harm, and supporting improved clinical care. We collaborate with federal agencies, healthcare systems, and community service providers nationwide to evaluate effectiveness, enhance chronic pain care, and support the implementation of employment services for people with SUD. Our goals: Reduce overdose deaths and build sustainable, and humane support systems for people impacted by SUDs.

To meet priority health goals, the private sector offers valuable resources such as skilled health workers, financing, and infrastructure to deliver services. Abt draws on our strong relationships with local governments around the world and deep understanding of the intricacies of the private health sector to achieve positive health outcomes. We identify opportunities for integrating the private health sector into the total health system and then facilitate strategic partnerships that build on each sector’s comparative strengths and resources. We also introduce innovative tools and solutions, improve the quality, sustainability, and impact of public health interventions, and ensure appropriate government oversight and stewardship.

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. 

Since our founding, Abt Global has tackled the world’s toughest challenges through advanced data analytics and emerging technologies. Data science remains at the heart of what we do today, powering solutions across health, environment, education, housing, and economic development. We utilize cutting-edge versions of tools—such as natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, chatbots, drones, and more—to meet our clients’ diverse needs.   

Abt’s proficiency in data science, statistics, methodology, and project management helps government and community stakeholders uncover valuable insights. We devise new survey designs like address-based sampling and precision geographic targeting. We meet data collection challenges with innovations like Virtual Omnichannel Integrated Citizen Engagement (VOICE), which integrates inbound and outbound support for in-person, telephone, web, texting, and interactive voice response approaches, augmented with chatbots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) response scraping. From design through execution, we evaluate data sources to eliminate inaccuracies and enhance the quality and integrity of results.

Abt’s data value chain, including responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI), shapes practical, actionable insights for our clients’ decision-making. These data and tools have empowered public health surveillance, predicted PFAS blood levels and delays in nursing care, and analyzed thousands of surveys through natural language processing (NLP). Our data analytics and AI experts work within rigorous methods to ensure accuracy and optimize processes, clearing a path for positive impact in everything from healthcare to agriculture.

Abt uses agile and human-centered design practices coupled with data analytics to provide the best digital solutions to transform systems, policies, and lives. We design and deliver interactive digital solutions using robust change management practices, a large partner ecosystem, and embedded security policies. We integrate fairness into every phase of our application development process, from initial team building and requirements gathering to testing and deployment.

Abt Global generates evidence to help clients address tough challenges—in education, housing, child welfare, employment, and health. Our researchers implement effective and efficient processes to collect and analyze vast amounts of data, producing frequently cited studies. Does a program reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition? Does a vaccine wane in effectiveness against a new virus variant? Our global interdisciplinary teams—research methodologists, statisticians, ethnographers, economists, epidemiologists, data scientists, and implementation research scientists— help policymakers answer such questions. They assess whether programs work to improve people’s lives, and if not, how to best resolve them.

Abt Global’s monitoring expertise is a pivotal element in our robust approach, enabling superior outcomes and providing time-sensitive data for informed decision-making in contexts around the world. Abt generates high-quality data that help craft theories of change, assess program performance, and design surveys and monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for complex data management. Our monitoring approach uses qualitative and quantitative methods to facilitate reflective learning and adaptive management. From health and environment to housing and agriculture, Abt’s experts use fit-for-purpose approaches to generate usable insights for resilient, sustainable, and secure societies.

Abt Global's qualitative and mixed methods research methods are at the core of our mission to deliver rigorous research and data. We tailor our methodological and data collection approach to answer our clients’ questions, and reflect communities' real-life complexities. From systematic data sampling to interviews and focus groups, we develop insights that inform policy and program decisions that are efficient and effective.