The Penn Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics and Health

In 2009, CHIBE investigators successfully competed for NIH funding to establish what was then one of two NIH Centers on behavioral economics and health (now the Penn Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics and Health), and CHIBE’s Center has been renewed consistently since then.

This program is one of 15 Roybal Centers nationally supported by the National Institute on Aging to conduct translational research in middle-aged and older populations.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, and other universities comprises our Roybal Center. Scientists from the fields of medicine, economics, psychology, statistics, law, epidemiology, and other disciplines work together to design interventions that leverage principles of behavioral economics to improve health and health care by increasing healthy behavior, improving chronic disease management, and increasing the quality and value of clinician care.

The program aims to:

1. Promote the development of principle-driven behavioral interventions;
2. Foster the integration of basic science within the intervention development process
3. Support the full range of activities necessary to conduct Stage 0 through IV research to lay the groundwork for successful transition from research to dissemination and implementation
4. Accelerate the development of innovative ideas that result in successful intervention development applications (including successful grant funding from other sponsors)
5. Facilitate collaborations among academic researchers and commercial interests
6. Draw new researchers to translational research on the development of principle-driven behavioral interventions to promote healthy aging
7. Provide a context for assembling multidisciplinary teams to solve practical problems.