Services: Focus Areas
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No matter the scale or scope of your project, we offer a targeted and well-designed approach, the right tools, and exceptional performance.
Focus Areas
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For clients seeking to reduce the impact of mental illness and substance abuse, Westat delivers critical insights into best practices and programs. Our research provides clients with actionable insights to address opioid addiction, tobacco use, and complex behavioral health issues.
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Westat’s clinical research solutions lead the way in offering both comprehensive and stand-alone clinical services. By integrating transformative technology with interdisciplinary expertise, we provide unparalleled insights and solutions for our federal and commercial clients. From streamlined clinical trials to cutting-edge epidemiological research, we harness big data and advanced bioinformatics to drive impactful health outcomes across various populations.
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Westat’s educational focus is our clients’ focus: identify the best ways to ensure quality education for all learners. So, we find answers to support educational access and success for all students, from all backgrounds and communities, while fostering inclusive environments, effective teaching practices, and learning environments. Our experts build people’s and institutional capacity, strengthen teaching and learning from birth through college, careers, and the workforce, and lead to better outcomes for students.
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When food insecurity or insufficient knowledge about healthy eating threaten Americans’ health, Westat’s pioneering methodology supports our clients’ nutrition assistance programs, ensuring individuals’ access to affordable, nutritious food; consumption of healthier diets; and receipt of entitled benefits without compromising effective public fund management.
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Health Services Research and Health Policy
Can clients enhance their health care systems’ value, patient care experiences, and outcomes while reducing costs? Westat’s expertise in innovative health care delivery models and value-based care delivers answers, contributing to both health care providers and patients.
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Labor and Workforce Development
Is job dissatisfaction impacting productivity? Are job trainings helping unemployed Americans find work and employers find skilled workers? How extensive are workers’ rights violations? And how can clients enhance job services for people with disabilities? Westat’s rigorous research finds the answers.
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Westat’s data science and multicenter approach enables clients to make groundbreaking medical advances to prevent, diagnose and treat communicable and noncommunicable diseases. For decades, our commitment has remained unchanged: use our research expertise to protect and improve the public’s health.
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Westat applies our analytical and surveillance talents to help clients effectively respond to the needs of multiple populations: the elderly, at-risk youth, veterans, children and families, victims of sexual violence, individuals experiencing homelessness, and others seeking to thrive.
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How can we reduce traffic fatalities, make our roads and vehicles safer, and plan for future transportation needs? Westat’s examination of driver behaviors, emerging technological advances, and current and future traffic patterns enables clients to make transportation safer and more efficient.