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Global Health Security

Global Health Security

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.

Expertise

  • Comprehensive One Health Approaches
  • Infectious Disease Surveillance
  • Laboratory Capacity Strengthening
  • Diagnostic Network Optimization
  • Biosafety and Biosecurity
  • Digital and Information Systems Solutions
  • Strengthening Capacity for Outbreak Preparedness and Response

Clients Include

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Our Work

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Rigorous COVID-19 data collection for CDC that produced a score of oft-cited journal articles with huge impact on U.S. national policy and science

Abt Receives USAID Award to Strengthen Tuberculosis Control in Uzbekistan

Strengthening tuberculosis control in Uzbekistan to optimize delivery of high-quality, people-centered services and address systemic impediments

Collecting Infectious Disease Data in Nursing Homes

Studies that gather key physical, operational, and other data in U.S. nursing homes to better prepare them for future infectious disease outbreaks

SSBH Protocols Saved Lives During Nepal’s COVID-19 Epidemic

Rapid response COVID-19 protocols in 50 municipalities of Nepal, including hospital case management, traveler screening, and public communications

Infectious Diseases Impact Healthcare Workers

Analysis of the impact of infectious diseases on healthcare workers and reports detailing effectiveness of biosafety and infection control practices

Our Experts

Gulnora Razykova
Gulnora Razykova

Country Director, USAID Local Health System Sustainability COVID-19 Emergency Response, Tajikistan

United Kingdom

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Insights

What is One Health? A Frontline Defense Against Zoonotic Diseases

A One Health approach, which includes human, animal, and environmental health, is critical for fighting diseases passed between animals and humans.

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Bolstering Global Health Security in a Changing Climate

Climate change requires adaptive global health security strategies.

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Disaster Response & Resilience

Speed counts when anticipating or responding to a natural or man-made disaster. Abt offers comprehensive, nimble, and rapid support to federal agencies, regional organizations, states and other clients. We use a holistic approach to respond to and effectively manage health, social and environmental outcomes. 

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Trust and Localization: The Missing Tools in Pandemic Preparedness and Response

What is humanity’s best defense against a pandemic or other major threat? You’d be partially right to think: high-tech equipment in gleaming new health facilities, a computer farm in the cloud to collect and share data, highly qualified clinical staff, vast sums for vaccine research and development, and expansive budgets funding expensive national public health systems.

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News

Through a Planetary Health Lens: Coordinating Climate Resilience Efforts Worldwide

As the climate crisis grows, how can we coordinate systems to go beyond human health to planetary health? Abt experts share their ideas in this podcast.

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Pandemic Preparedness Hinges on Quickly Sharing Accurate Data

Abt adapted annual nationwide flu surveys to respond to the novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and gather information on COVID-19 vaccination and vaccine hesitancy.

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Abt to Help CDC Prepare for the Next Global Health Emergency

CDC awarded an Abt Global-led team a contract to help prepare needed information in advance of the next public health emergency.

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News

PMI Evolve: Evolving Vector Control to Fight Malaria

The World Health Organization estimates that about 608,000 people died from malaria in 2022, a slight decrease from the prior year, but still higher than before the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Young children and pregnant women are among the…

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Project

Building Lab Skills in Tajikistan for COVID-19 and Beyond

The Abt-led USAID LHSS project helped strengthen the capacity of laboratory specialists in Tajikistan to perform high-quality COVID-19 tests.

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Impact Brief

Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Ascend Lot 1 – The UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) set out to invest £100 million in 11 countries in East and Southern Africa and South Asia to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs…

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Spotlight On: Solutions for Malaria, Vector-Borne Diseases, and Novel Pathogens

Abt Global is the world’s largest provider of interventions to track and control malaria, protecting millions of people annually in nearly 30 countries.

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