Abt's The Intersect

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 in the United States. Learn how we can seize this moment to expand school lunch programs, bolster food security for families, and use data and analysis to determine a better way forward beyond the corona virus.

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 with these systemic inequities can inform the programs and policies needed to turn the tide. Learn more in this episode of The Intersect podcast.

For more on this topic, listen to episode 15: Racial Bias, Data Science, and the Justice System.

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 and the early education sector. From education to health to economics, education expert Amy Checkoway and infectious disease expert Leigh Mathias assess the challenges and suggest steps to better outcomes.

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 America Fed is a podcast miniseries through which we’ll look at those issues, and how they’re being addressed locally and at the state and federal level. In this episode, Geri Hench, director of Nutrition Policy at FRAC, and Abt Senior Associates Maria Boyle talk about the successes and shortcoming of national programs, and the data that can help us close the gaps.

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 and Sharmini Radakrishnan discuss the approaches we can take—and the expertise we’ll need—to eliminate racial bias in the justice system.

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 America Fed is a podcast miniseries through which we’ll look at those issues, and how they’re being addressed locally and at the state and federal levels. In this episode, Deputy Director of Neighbors in Need Lisa Smith and Abt Senior Associate Maria Boyle talk about identifying and implementing solutions locally.

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 episode of The Intersect podcast, Russ Jones and Mark Lorie explain how novel use of GIS data and analysis can help efforts to respond to—and plan for—floods.

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 delivery, Cathy Thompson and Jane Fox compare notes on their work with HIV in the U.S. and around the globe.

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 Loeffler and international health expert Bob Fryatt compare notes and look ahead in this episode of The Intersect podcast.

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 crisis and beyond.