Itamar Katz, Abt senior associate (right), discusses Abt’s HIV/AIDS Program Sustainability Analysis Tool (HAPSAT) with Ariel Pablos-Mendez, USAID assistant administrator for global health.
Abt’s Innovative Tools Answer Complex Questions
Abt has created a number of innovative tools to answer difficult questions, such as:
- What are the health and financial benefits of improving air quality?
- How can countries ensure sustainable funding for their HIV/AIDS programs?
- What are the environmental impacts of large-scale changes to the United States economy?
These Abt tools – AirCounts™, CarbonCountsTM, BenMAP, HAPSAT, and TEAM – all are software-based systems that are informing governments, citizens, and others of the potential impact of decisions made today.
AirCounts
AirCounts™ is and online tool to help large and medium-sized cities calculate the health benefits and monetary value of air quality improvements. The interactive website — part of Abt’s arsenal of original climate change solution methods and tools—enables users to determine how many premature deaths can be avoided and the associated economic benefits in the largest cities worldwide. Visitors to AirCounts
TM can choose any city and see its profile, including its fine particulate matter (PM
2.5) level, the city’s population, income per capita and adult mortality rate. They can use the on-line calculator to determine benefits of various levels of emissions reductions. For more information about AirCounts in the United States, contact
Mike Conti. For international AirCounts questions contact
Rodolfo Camacho.
CarbonCountsTM
CarbonCountsTM is an innovative tool that consolidates and simplifies reporting, verification, and management of climate change and environmental initiative progress — including greenhouse gas mitigation, climate adaptation, collaboration efforts, energy consumption, waste generation, water use, and green procurement. It is specifically designed to support collaboration among multiple organizations and management of climate and other environmental initiatives. For more information about CarbonCountsTM email our team.
BenMAP
The
Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP) uses a geographic information system to estimate the health impacts and economic benefits from improvements in air quality. BenMAP can perform comprehensive analyses but it is accessible enough so that non-technical users can estimate benefits after a short tutorial. Analysts have relied upon BenMAP to estimate the health impacts from air quality changes at the city and regional scale, both within and beyond the U.S. BenMAP includes nearly all of the information users would need to start performing a benefits analysis. BenMAP results can be mapped for ease of presentation. For more information about BenMAP contact
Anna Belova.
HAPSAT
The
HIV/AIDS Program Sustainability Analysis Tool (HAPSAT) was developed by the Abt-led, USAID funded Health Systems 20/20 to assist governments and donors with the development of HIV/AIDS policies and implementation plans. HAPSAT utilizes a computer-based model for forecasting and analyzing the sustainability of HIV/AIDS programs during periods of service delivery scale-up and/or when facing limited or unknown future resource levels. For more about HAPSAT contact
Itamar Katz.
TEAM
The
Trade and Environmental Assessment Model (TEAM) estimates a wide range of environmental impacts resulting from national economic changes. This comprehensive approach accounts for the potential for environmental impacts that from the sectors directly affected by an economic event – such as a change in trade policy – but also from changes in other sectors. The model relates economic activity specified by geographical unit (e.g., state) and North American Industry Classification System sector to emissions/resource use attributed to these same activities.
Download a model of TEAM. For more information about TEAM contact
Isabelle Morin.