Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
Abt Global generates evidence to help clients address tough challenges—in education, housing, child welfare, employment, and public health. Our researchers implement equitable processes to collect and analyze vast amounts of data, producing frequently cited studies. Does a program reduce food insecurity and improve nutrition? Does a COVID-19 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 if programs work to improve people’s lives, and if not, how to best resolve them.
Our innovative, equity-focused, and adaptable RME approaches include systematic evidence reviews and randomized controlled trials. We conduct research that engages and uplifts the voices of impacted communities and explores tough questions, such as how to eliminate bias in evaluations. We harness artificial intelligence enhancements and our own online tools to increase reviews’ efficiency and accuracy.
Our six COVID-19 studies for the CDC produced 20 scientific journal articles cited 1,800 times and final datasets of 429 million data points
We led the only national study on family homelessness for HUD, determining direct and radiating positive effects of long-term housing subsidies
We monitor malaria-carrying mosquito resistance to insecticide sprays and treated bed nets to determine when it’s necessary to switch products
Featured In Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
Spotlight On: Abt’s Quantitative Research Methods
Abt’s quantitative methods research expertise spans sectors to provide our clients the most informed, high-quality data.
Spotlight On: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
Spotlight On: Monitoring
Abt Global offers its clients around the world deep expertise in monitoring. It’s a key component of our rigorous approach to performance management.
We Can Do Better: Data, Educational Outcomes, and Equity
Karen Gray-Adams and Rebecca McGill-Wilkinson discuss equity, the education evaluation process, and ensuring we identify the best way forward for every child.
Abt Conversations: Implementing Summer EBT—Tips from the Chickasaw Nation
Abt’s René Nutter talks with Tyra Shackleford, Chickasaw Nation’s Summer EBT Manager, about what it takes for a successful Summer EBT implementation.
The Social Determinants of Justice: Disability, Employment, and the Justice System Connection
This podcast discusses how supports from elementary school through the hiring process can mitigate links between disability, employment, and the justice system.
Evaluations & Racial Equity: How Do We Eliminate Bias from Evaluations Intended to Address … Bias?
What happens when data collection and analyses of programs that promote equity are inadvertently sabotaged by bias? Abt experts share tips and experiences.
Implementing Equity in Projects: Developing a System to Remake the System
This podcast discusses Abt’s approach to dismantling systemic inequities, and how we’re implementing it in HUD’s annual report to Congress on homelessness.
How We Model Matters: Visualizing Program Theories
Join our webinar to learn new, creative ways to visualize program theories.
Evaluation & Methods Digest – December 2023
Preparing for the Next Pandemic, College Access for Latine Families, and More! Dive into Abt's Evaluation & Methods Digest to see how our research, monitoring, and evaluation work can help you.
Evaluation & Methods Digest – September 2023
Behavioral Health Equity, Improving Literacy, and More! Dive into Abt's Evaluation & Methods Digest to see how our research, monitoring, and evaluation work can help you.
Online Tool for Systematic Evidence Review
Abt developed an Online Review Tool to help screen studies, conduct systematic evidence reviews, and provide a public website to disseminate review findings.
Abt Played a Key COVID-19 Role Providing CDC Needed Data
Abt researchers working for CDC informed national health policy and science with rigorous data gathering on COVID-19 transmission and vaccine effectiveness.
Replication of Recovery and Reunification Interventions for Families-Impact Study (R3-Impact)
In the last 20 years, parental substance use disorder (SUD) has become an increasingly prevalent reason for children to enter foster care. Recovery coaching is a promising strategy to support parents’ recovery and help keep families safe and together…
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Senior Analyst/PhD Economist – Economic and Social Policy - Abt Global Careers
United States
Abt Global seeks a Senior Analyst / PhD Economist to support our portfolio of social policy work within Abt’s Research, Monitoring, & Evaluation Capability team. As a member of the Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Capability team, you will apply general and specialized knowledge of principles and concepts in the field of economics to conduct research, monitoring, and evaluation services at the highest levels of quality and rigor to generate evidence-based insights. You will join a diverse and collegial environment where we are dedicated to finding solutions to the most pressing research challenges in education, workforce, food and nutrition, children youth and families, and housing and asset building.
Senior Analyst/PhD Economist - Health - Abt Global Careers
United States
Abt Global seeks a Senior Analyst / PhD Economist to support our portfolio of domestic health work within Abt’s Research, Monitoring, & Evaluation Capability team. As a member of the Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Capability team, you will apply general and specialized knowledge of principles and concepts in the field of economics to conduct research, monitoring, and evaluation at the highest levels of quality and rigor to generate evidence-based insights. You will join a diverse and collegial environment where we find solutions to the most pressing research challenges in public health and health care.
California Housing Associate - Abt Global Careers
United States
Abt Global seeks a qualified Housing Research Associate to support our Housing, Communities and Asset Building work. You will sit within our Research, Monitoring, & Evaluation Capability and will have the opportunity to execute contract research activities at the highest levels of quality and rigor to generate evidence-based insights. The successful candidate will be an experienced qualitative or mixed methods researcher with housing policy knowledge to lead research and evaluation activities, primarily on the West Coast, with a special emphasis on California-based research projects.
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