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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.

Women’s screening preferences shift after being informed about the 2024 USPSTF breast cancer screening guideline

Patient Education and Counseling
July 1, 2026
Tamar Parmet, Grant Yoder, Kirsten McCaffery, Jolyn Hersch, Marilyn M. Schapira, Carmen L. Lewis, Joseph N. Cappella, Channing Tate, Brad Morse, Laura D. Scherer

Erratum to “Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out: A randomized controlled field experiment” [Appetite 221 (2026) 108494]

Appetite
July 1, 2026
Sophia V. Hua; Christina A. Roberto; Emily Yam; Eliza Leone; Laura A. Gibson; Eric B. Rimm

Text-Message Outreach to Connect Adolescents and Young Adults to Nicotine Treatment: A Pilot Study in Pediatric Primary Care

Academic Pediatrics
July 1, 2026
Eleanor Lustig, Gabrielle DiFiore, Maura Powell, Frank T. Leone, Robert Schnoll, Brian P. Jenssen

Factors associated with discharge to skilled nursing despite a clinical recommendation for inpatient rehabilitation

Journal of Stroke & Cardiovascular Diseases
June 1, 2026
Kiersten M. McCartney; Ruiqi Yan; Lin Xu; Rujula Upasani; Stephen Hampton; Robert E. Burke; M. Kit Delgado; Kimberly J. Waddell

Improving access to essential medicines via decision-aware machine learning

Nature
May 29, 2026
Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung; Jatu Abdulai; Patrick Bayoh; Lawrence Sandi; Francis Smart; Hamsa Bastani; Osbert Bastani

Nudging implementation of low tidal volume ventilation: a stepped wedge, cluster randomized trial

Implementation Science
May 7, 2026
Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Michael O. Harhay, Fan Li, Dylan S. Small, Yingying Lu, Wei Wang, Barry D. Fuchs, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Teresa Tran, Aerielle Belk, Jasmine A. Silvestri, Tamar Klaiman, Stefania Scott, Elizabeth Levy, Michael W. Sjoding, Rachel Kohn, Karsten J. Roberts, Rinad S. Beidas & Scott D. Halpern

Which Nudges Matter Most for Scalable Influenza Vaccination?-Reply

JAMA Internal Medicine
May 4, 2026
Kimberly J. Waddell; Kristin A. Linn; Shivan J. Mehta

Behavioral Interventions Improve Mailed Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Overdue Patients in a Randomized Trial

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
May 1, 2026
Shivan J. Mehta, Pranay Nadella, Pamela A. Shaw, Catherine Reitz, Caitlin Brophy, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, Christopher K. Snider, MaryAnne K. Peifer, Corinne Rhodes, David A. Asch

Health Care Affordability in the United States, From Crisis to Action: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

Circulation
April 30, 2026
Dhruv S. Kazi; Joshua A. Beckman; Regina M. Benjamin; Grace Firestone; Janay C. Johnson; Mark B. McClellan; Neil Meltzer; Anne Oxrider; Stacey E. Rosen; Bertram L. Scott; Kevin G. Volpp; John J. Warner

Medicare Part D Formulary Coverage of Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis

JAMA Health Forum
April 24, 2026
Pengxiang Li; Matthew J. Klebanoff; John K. Lin; Keya D. Doshi; Salim Chahin; Jalpa A. Doshi

Understanding HIV Vaccine Misinformation and Vaccine Intentions Among Young Women in South Africa: Insights from an Online Survey

AIDS and Behavior
April 21, 2026
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Teniola I. Egbe, Simamkele Bokolo, Megan Rabin, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Melanie Kornides, Lawrence Long, Sophie Pascoe, Sarah Penuela-Wermers, Sander van der Linden, Harsha Thirumurthy, Alison M. Buttenheim

REPLY: Next Steps for Studying Behaviorally Designed Gamification to Increase Physical Activity

JACC: CardioOncology
April 21, 2026
Alexander C. Fanaraoff, Bonnie Ky, Kevin G. Volpp, Saro H. Armenian

A mixed methods evaluation of mechanisms for facilitation in pediatric primary care

Implementation Science Communications
April 14, 2026
Jennifer M. Boggs, Nathaniel Williams, Claire R. Waller, Mallika Pandey, Christina Johnson, Brian K. Ahmedani, Celeste Pappas, Katy Bedjeti, Melissa Maye, Courtney Benjamin Wolk, Alison M. Buttenheim, Kristin A. Linn, Leslie Wright, Matthew F. Daley, Dylan S. Small & Rinad S. Beidas

Factors Associated With Differences in the Recommended Versus Actual Discharge Location After Stroke

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
April 9, 2026
Kimberly J. Waddell, Ruiqi Yan, Lin Xu, Stephen Hampton, Robert E. Burke, Rujula Upasani, Kiersten M. McCartney, Mucio Kit Delgado

Multisite External Validation of a Clinical Screening Tool for Interpersonal Firearm Violence Risk

Annals of Internal Medicine
April 7, 2026
Jason E Goldstick, Patrick M Carter, M Kit Delgado, Lauren Whiteside, Rebecca M Cunningham

A community based participatory research approach to evaluate barriers and facilitators for behavioral weight loss intervention implementation in a predominantly black community

Supportive Care in Cancer
April 6, 2026
Elizabeth De Jesus, Sean Woo, Robert S. Krouse, Carmen E. Guerra, Katharine A. Rendle, Tamara Cadet, Kelly C. Allison, Julia Tchou