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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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Take a look at CHIBE’s publications, which are helping advance the science of using behavioral economics to improve health and leading to discoveries around how our minds work.

Linkage of Emergency Department Patients With Public Benefits Navigators via Text Messages: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Health Forum
February 26, 2026
Austin S Kilaru, Aliza Haider, Joseph Harrison, Erica L Dixon, Lauren Southwick, Melissa Berkowitz, Charles Rareshide, Conor Carroll, Clayton Kaledin, Grace McDermott, Michael Mehta, Alisa J Stephens Shields, Wendy De La Rosa, Anish K Agarwal, Raina M Merchant

Using big data to uncover the causes of dementia

Nature Health
January 30, 2026
Jason Fletcher, Atheendar Venkataramani & David H. Rehkopf

Potential prevalence of front-of-package labels on packaged foods in a supermarket chain in the Northeast United States under two proposed labeling systems

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
January 12, 2026
Joshua Petimar, C. Ross Hatton, Yutong Zhang, Alyssa J. Moran, Anna H. Grummon, Lauren P. Cleveland, Jason P. Block, Aviva A. Musicus

Sequential choice vs colonoscopy outreach for colorectal cancer screening: Design and rationale of a pragmatic randomized clinical trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials
January 12, 2026
Shivan J. Mehta, Pamela A. Shaw, Catherine Reitz, Caitlin Brophy, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, Abraham Segura, Jinming Tao, Christopher K. Snider, Colin Wollack, Sadie Friday, Katharine A. Rendle, Tamar Klaiman, Karen Glanz, Corinne Rhodes, David A. Asch

Characterising concerns and misinformation shaping global HIV vaccine confidence and demand: a structured literature search and content analysis

BMJ Global Health
January 8, 2026
Simamkele Bokolo, Megan Rabin, Sarah Penuela-Wermers, Candice Maylene Chetty-Makkan, Teniola I. Egbe, Harsha Thirumurthy, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Alison Buttenheim

The impact of restaurant menu eco labels on consumer meal selections: a randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
January 8, 2026
Alexandria E. Reimold, Jennifer Falbe, Brent F. Kim, Aviva A. Musicus, Nina Carr, Raychel Santo, Clara Cho, Cindy W. Leung, Christina A. Roberto, Julia A. Wolfson

Identifying ultra-processed foods for policy

Nature Medicine
January 7, 2026
Alyssa J. Moran, Neha Khandpur & Christina A. Roberto

Point-of-sale sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) warning posters vs. control posters were associated with reductions in school store SSB purchases made by Guatemalan adolescents

Public Health Nutrition
January 2, 2026
Violeta Chacón, Joaquín Barnoya, Laura A. Gibson, Sophia Mus, José Carlos Monzón Fuentes, Alisa Stephens, Marsha Trego, Caitlin Lowery, Christina D. Economos, Alison Tovar, Sara Folta, Christina A. Roberto

Transplantation in Mandatory Kidney Payment Models: Understanding the Potential Influence of the ESRD Treatment Choices Model on the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model

Kidney Medicine
January 1, 2026
Yuvaram N. V. Reddy, Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Vishnu S. Potluri, Adam Mussell, Joel T. Adler, Amol S. Navathe

Pediatric Healthcare Worker Perspectives on Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program: A Qualitative Study

Preprint*
January 1, 2026
Claire R Waller, Mallika Pande, Jennifer M Boggs, Arne Beck, Ruth P Bedoy, Alison M Buttenheim, Marisa E Elias, Katelin Hoskins, Shari Jager-Hyman, Christina Johnson, Melissa Maye, Bridget McArdle, Celeste Pappas, Dylan S Small, LeeAnn M Quintana, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Leslie A Wright, Nathaniel J Williams, Brian K Ahmedani, Rinad S Beidas

In a shifting policy era: California provider knowledge and practice of medical exemption laws during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccine
January 1, 2026
Holly B Schuh, Paul Delamater, Tina M Proveaux, Matthew Z Dudley, Alison M Buttenheim, Jason L Schwartz, Nicola P Klein, Kristin Goddard, Kavin M Patel, Saad B Omer, Daniel A Salmon

Specialty Oral Anticancer Prescription Fill Rates After Medicare Part D Cost-Sharing Changes in 2024

JAMA Network
December 29, 2025
John K Lin, Pengxiang Li, Xiudong Lei, Sunita M Desai, Jalpa A Doshi

Toward optimizing social drivers of health screenings in prenatal care: Healthcare professional perspectives

Pregnancy
December 28, 2025
Melissa Berkowitz, Erica L. Dixon, Jenna White, Tamar Klaiman, Sindhu K. Srinivas, Rebecca F. Hamm

Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Health Behavior Change: A Narrative Review and Analysis

Annual Review of Public Health
December 23, 2025
Karen Glanz, Harsha Thirumurthy, and Natasha Agnes D'cruze

“You could hear their breathing slow down”: insights on a video-based psychosocial support intervention to increase HIV treatment uptake and improve psychosocial well-being among men living with HIV in South Africa

AIDS Care
December 21, 2025
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Mamaswatsi Kopeka, Harsha Thirumurthy, Alison Buttenheim, Mark Lurie, Elzette Rousseau, Philip Smith, Linda-Gail Bekker & Abigail Harrison

CAR-T for all? Barriers, facilitators, and interventions to commercial CAR T-cell therapy access

Blood Reviews
December 16, 2025
Sofia Kaparis, Khashayar Eshaghi, Luca Paruzzo, Jalpa Doshi, Marco Ruella, Carmen E Guerra