Podcasts by Abts The Intersect
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Intersesct Ep 26 - Women, Healthcare, and the Global Economy from 2022-01-19T14:00:08
Around the world, there’s a vital need for healthcare services. At the same time, women are disproportionately excluded from the global economy. These two challenges are connected, and so are their...
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Abt Conversations: Health and Equity - New Mexico from 2021-12-21T16:16:19
Good health and safe environments are important to everyone. Increasingly, federal, state, and local partners are seeking ways to improve health for all people, no matter where they live, who they ...
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Abt Conversations: Health and Equity - Minnesota from 2021-12-09T19:32:03
Good health and safe environments are important to everyone. Increasingly, federal, state, and local partners are seeking ways to improve health for all people, no matter where they live, who they ...
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Abt Conversations: Health and Equity - Massachusetts from 2021-12-09T19:30:54
All people are entitled to good health and safe environments. Increasingly federal, state, and local partners are seeking ways to improve health access and outcomes for everyone, no matter where th...
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Lightening the Load: Combatting Stressors Due to Climate Change & Social Determinants of Health from 2021-10-20T13:00:04
Poverty. Violence. Environmental disasters. The stress from living with these challenges can have physiological impacts on those who must endure them. In this episode of The Intersect, Abt’s Lisann...
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Climate Change & The Impact on Health: It's Not (Just) the Heat, It's the ... Everything from 2021-09-22T13:00:06
The rising heat around the globe is not only deadly in its own right, it creates additional health threats to humans, including increases in diseases spread by animals and toxins released by algae....
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Sound Evidence: An Expert Discussion on COVID-19 Research from 2021-08-11T12:50:05
In this Sound Evidence podcast, Abt Researchers Laura Edwards and Meredith Wesley delve step-by-step into the details of how we are implementing the CDC-funded RECOVER Study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence...
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The Intersect 23 - Reaching Equity: Data, Collaboration, and the Social Determinants of Health from 2021-06-16T13:00:03
The social determinants of health are interactive and multi-faceted, but often the experts who address them are siloed—as are their data. How do we share the data that can tell us the full story ab...
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Charting the Way: Advancing the Field of Addiction Medicine from 2021-06-03T13:00:01
The addiction workforce faces many challenges, from limited capacity to meet the growing demand for treatment services to inadequate financial and professional incentives to enter and remain in the...
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Charting the Way: Expanding the Behavioral Health Workforce - The Role of Peers from 2021-05-26T13:00
For many people, especially those with mental illness or substance use problems, or who are living in underserved racially or ethnically diverse communities, it’s difficult to receive the behaviora...
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Charting the Way: A National Strategy for the Behavioral Health Workforce from 2021-05-20T13:45:39
Behavioral Health challenges—notably substance use and mental health—are more prevalent than ever, but the workforce needed to provide support is shrinking, even as the need for equitable services ...
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Breathing Easier: Emissions Data, Environmental Justice, and Child Health from 2021-04-21T13:00:01
Environmental justice. Maternal and child health. Two health crises that are related yet rarely addressed together. Abt’s David Cooley and Lawrence Reichle explain how data, technology, and creativ...
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The Intersect 22 - Breathing Easier: Emissions Data, Environmental Justice, and Child Health from 2021-04-21T13:00:01
Environmental justice. Maternal and child health. Two health crises that are related yet rarely addressed together. Abt’s David Cooley and Lawrence Reichle explain how data, technology, and creativ...
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The Intersect 21 - Homelessness & Public Health: How Can We Close the Gap? from 2021-03-24T13:00:09
Homelessness. COVID-19. Both are crises in their own rights, but Abt’s recent work with HUD and CDC highlights the benefits of addressing homelessness and public health as related challenges. Natal...
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The Intersect 20 - Data & Racial Equity: How Do We Eliminate Bias from AI, Machine Learning, & More? from 2021-02-17T14:00:02
How can we rely on data to help address racial equality when it’s inherently biased by centuries of inequity? In this episode of The Intersect, Abt’s Laura Peck and Jason Brinkley look under the ho...
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The Intersect 19 - Equity & Catastrophe: How Can Resilience Programs Support Vulnerable Populations? from 2021-01-13T14:00:06
On a day-to-day basis, vulnerable populations suffer from inequities in health, wealth, and education. These same people are then disproportionately impacted by catastrophes ranging from hurricanes...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep 18: COVID-19. Flu Season. How Are We Responding? from 2020-11-18T14:17:52
As COVID-19 cases spike and the U.S. and other countries brace for flu season, Abt’s Danielle Hunt and James White take a look around the globe to see how we’re preparing. Learn about the groundwor...
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Podcast - Keeping America Fed: Food Security and Nutrition Post-COVID from 2020-10-20T13:00:36
In the third and final episode of Keeping America Fed, Abt’s Maria Boyle talks to Lorrene Ritchie, director of the Nutrition Policy Institute, about the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on nutrition i...
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The Intersect Ep 17 - Turning the Tide: Systemic Racial Inequities & Social Determinants of Health from 2020-10-14T13:00:04
Racial inequities are pervasive throughout the social determinants of health. Abt’s Diane Paulsell and Chloe Greene discuss how data, analysis, technical assistance, and input from those who live w...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep 16 - Back to School? COVID-19’s Impacts on Students, Families & Educators from 2020-09-16T13:00:09
As the school year starts, many kids are still home practicing distance learning. In this episode of The Intersect podcast, we discuss the disparities in COVID-19’s impacts on low-income families a...
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Keeping America Fed: COVID-19 and National Food Security from 2020-09-15T19:07:42
Food security is a daily challenge for millions of Americans, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated a myriad of issues for those same people and the stakeholders who work with them. Keep Americ...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep 15 - Racial Bias, Data Science, and the Justice System from 2020-08-19T13:00:05
From pretrial detention to sentencing to community supervision, data can inform and guide how our justice system works but, for better and for worse, that data doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Holly Swan...
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Keeping America Fed Ep 1 - COVID-19 and Local Food Security from 2020-07-23T13:00:09
Food security is a daily challenge for millions of Americans, but the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated a myriad of issues for those same people and the stakeholders who work with them. Keeping Ame...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep 14 - Inundated: Flooding, GIS, and Safer Living Through Data from 2020-07-15T13:00:06
The impacts of flooding are increasing: damages are growing costlier and climate change is expected to exacerbate the risks and effects. How can we reduce costs—and save lives? In the latest episod...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep13 - HIV and COVID: Maintaining Progress During the Pandemic from 2020-06-17T13:00:15
With all the progress we’ve made against HIV, how do we maintain momentum during COVID? And how can we leverage successful HIV strategies to battle the coronavirus? From contact tracing to service ...
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Podcast- The Intersect Ep 12 - Responding to COVID-19: U.S., International, and What’s Next? from 2020-05-13T13:28:51
Data collection. Analysis. Communication. Collaboration. As the coronavirus response continues to unfold, what’s working in the U.S. and around the world, and what’s next? U.S. health expert Ann Lo...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep 11 - COVID-19 and the Future of Telehealth from 2020-04-14T15:45:54
As COVID-19 overburdens hospitals and healthcare workers, health services researcher and clinician Nicole Keane and digital expert Gabriel Krieshok discuss how telehealth can get us through this cr...
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The Intersect Ep 10 - Opioids and Employment: How Can We Promote Recovery and Economic Well-Being? from 2020-03-16T18:44:10
Opioids. Employment. The relationship between the two is complex. Abt experts Karin Martinson and Amy Berninger discuss the co-dependencies, and the efforts to develop programs that both promote re...
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Podcast - The Intersect Ep9 - Flu. Coronavirus. Could analytics change the trajectory of a pandemic? from 2020-02-11T16:59:16
Be it outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic—human or zoonotic—the goal is to get reliable information on infectious diseases, quickly. Abt experts Laura Edwards and Sung-Woo Cho discuss strategies for ha...
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Podcast - The Intersect EP8 - Closing the Opportunity Gap – Housing and Education from 2019-10-23T13:46:15
Income inequality. Housing affordability. Education achievement gaps. These social determinants of health can impact families over generations. How do we close the opportunity gap to ensure familie...
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Podcast - The Intersect EP7 - Kids First—Systems, Health and Family Well-being from 2019-09-16T19:57:39
Health. Food security. Opioids. Child welfare.
When parents need support, the services they rely on sometimes fail the family by imposing unnecessary child separations. How can we help sy...
Podcast - The Intersect EP6 - Defeating TB - Private Sector to Predictive Analytics from 2019-08-19T16:01:15
How do we defeat tuberculosis? With sustainable solutions. With support from the private sector. With data. Abt’s Elaine Baruwa (SHOPS Plus’ Nigeria tuberculosis project manager) and Jason Brinkley...
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Podcast - The Intersect EP5 - Good Governance — Key to Energy Reform from 2019-07-17T13:00:14
To reform the energy sector in developing countries, good governance is a must. Energy expert Dana Kenney and governance guru Tiernan Mennen discuss the challenges of promoting sound environmental ...
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Podcast - The Intersect EP4 - AI v. Opioids: Fighting Back with Data from 2019-06-18T14:22:29
In “AI v. Opioids: Fighting Back with Data,” Abt’s Dana Hunt and Gabriel Krieshok explain how data from the past and present can help us solve the opioid crisis now.
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Podcast - The Intersect EP3 - Agriculture and Adaptation from 2019-05-21T16:13:30
Climate adaptation. Agriculture. Sustainability. They’re interconnected, but often addressed independently. Abt’s Sarah Kozyn and Lorine Giangola ask what if they combined their work with clients ...
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Podcast - The Intersect EP2 - Infectious Diseases and Machine Learning from 2019-04-17T16:37:43
How do we eradicate infectious diseases? By using machine learning to apply—and amplify—our accumulated knowledge and expertise across diseases.
Take 10 minutes to hear Abt’s Jill Berkowit...
Podcast - The Intersect EP1 - Housing and Climate Change from 2019-03-13T14:34:48
Challenges in areas ranging from education to the environment, gender to governance, health to housing don’t exist in a vacuum. Each month, Abt experts from two disciplines will explore ideas for t...
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