Contract No. GHS-I-00-03-000xx-00

4800 Montgomery Lane

Suite 600

Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone: 301 913 0500
Fax: 301 652 3618

carlos_carrazana@abtassoc.com

patricia_poulton@abtassoc.com

www.abtassoc.com

The Abt TASC II IQC Team includes Abt Associates, American Manufacturer’s Export Group, Bitran & Associates, CARE USA, Global Microenterprise Initiatives, Howard-Delafield International, Population Services International, Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc., and Tulane University. We are dedicated to supporting USAID Missions and Bureaus as they implement their strategic objectives to reduce unintended and mistimed pregnancies; maternal, infant, and child morbidity and mortality; HIV transmission; and the threat of infectious diseases. In order to meet these objectives, we use a comprehensive and integrated approach to ensure that interventions:

• Address issues at all levels of the health system: policy, health service delivery, community, and individual;
• Utilize international best practices;
• Are cost-efficient and equitable;
• Are country specific and locally relevant;
• Integrate existing health services and are not vertical in nature;
• Achieve significant scale;
• Build capacity for increased sustainability;
• Complement existing efforts, including USAID and other donors.

We offer a team that demonstrates our breadth of technical expertise, our commitment to high quality work, and our ability to respond quickly to requests for technical assistance in areas of policy reform, behavior change, service delivery, training, commodities, and applied research. Our partnership offers strong, experienced management and an extensive network of experts that can work collaboratively toward completing individual tasks in a timely, cost-effective, and high quality manner. 

Our team and areas of expertise include:

• Abt Associates: health sector strengthening, including health care financing, integrated health systems, health program management, health-related research, and health policy. 
• American Manufacturer's Export Group (AMEG): commodity procurement and shipment services;
• Bitran & Associates: health financing, economics, training and health care reform (focusing on Latin America) 
• CARE USA: child survival, reproductive health, family planning, maternal-child health, community development, and emergency relief;
• Global Microenterprise Initiatives (GMI): business approaches to NGO sustainability, private sector promotion of public health outcomes, public/private partnerships and corporate social responsibility, financial, economic and market analysis;
• Howard-Delafield International (HDI): HIV/AIDS prevention and control, primary health care, orphans and vulnerable children, and environmental health;
• Population Services International (PSI): behavioral and communication change and social marketing;
• Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc. (SSDS): commodities management and operations and applied research;
• Tulane University Department of International Health and Development: infectious diseases, epidemiology, nutrition, food security, and health information systems.