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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
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Publications

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.

Effectiveness of Using Additional HIV Self-Test Kits as an Incentive to Increase HIV Testing Within Assisted Partner Services

JAIDS
August 15, 2024
Unmesha Roy Paladhi, David A Katz, George Otieno, James P Hughes, Harsha Thirumurthy, Harison Lagat, Sarah Masyuko, Monisha Sharma, Paul Macharia, Rose Bosire, Mary Mugambi, Edward Kariithi, Carey Farquhar

Association between mandatory bundled payments and changes in socioeconomic disparities for joint replacement outcomes

Health Services Research
August 11, 2024
Austin S. Kilaru, Joshua M. Liao, Erkuan Wang, Yueming Zhao, Jingsan Zhu, Grace Ng, Torrey Shirk, Deborah S. Cousins, Genevieve P. Kanter, Said Ibrahim, Amol S. Navathe

Evaluation of four interventions using behavioural economics insights to increase demand for voluntary medical male circumcision in South Africa through the MoyaApp: A quasi-experimental study

JAIDS
August 9, 2024
Preethi Mistri, Silviu Tomescu, Simamkele Bokolo, Alexandra De Nooy, Pedro T Pisa, Skye Grove, Laura Schmucker, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Lawrence Long, Alison Buttenheim, Brendan Maughan-Brown

Applying behavioural economics principles to increase demand for free HIV testing services at private doctor-led clinics in Johannesburg, South Africa: A randomised controlled trial

PLOS Global Public Health
August 6, 2024
Simamkele Bokolo, Suzanne Mabaso, Wentzel Kruger, Preethi Mistri, Laura Schmucker, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Sophie J S Pascoe, Alison Buttenheim, Harsha Thirumurthy, Lawrence Long

Looking to “Level the Field”: A Qualitative Study of How Clinicians Operationalize Social Determinants in Critical Care

Annals of the American Thoracic Society
August 6, 2024
Deepa Ramadurai, Heta Patel, Jacqueline Chan, Juliet Young, Justin T. Clapp, Joanna L. Hart

Willingness to trade-off years of life for an HIV cure – an experimental exploration of affective forecasting

AIDS Research and Therapy
August 6, 2024
Ilona Fridman, Nir Eyal, Karen A Scherr, Judith S Currier, Kenneth A Freedberg, Scott D Halpern, Daniel R Kuritzkes, Monica Magalhaes, Kathryn I Pollak, Peter A Ubel

Food is brain medicine — relevance and translation to neurology

Nature Reviews Neurology
August 2, 2024
Michell S. V. Elkind & Kevin G. Volpp

Advancing Equity In Kidney Transplantation Through The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model

Health Affairs
August 1, 2024
Yuvaram N.V. Reddy, Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, Gaurav Jain, Amol S. Navathe, Sumit Mohan, Mallika L. Mendu

GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity

JAMA
July 31, 2024
Alyssa J. Moran, Christina A. Roberto

Hospice Administrators’ and Providers’ Perspectives on Providing Upstream Palliative Care: Facilitators, Barriers, and Policy Prescriptions

Journal of Palliative Medicine
July 29, 2024
Tamar Klaiman, Jenna Steckel, Caleb Hearn, Amaya Diana, William J. Ferrell, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Amol S. Navathe, Ravi B. Parikh

A randomized trial of behavioral interventions yielding sustained reductions in distracted driving

PNAS
July 29, 2024
Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiying A. Xiong, Neda Khan, Dina Abdel-Rahman, Aaron Leitner, William C. Everett, Kristen L. Gaba, William J. Fisher, Catherine C. McDonald, Flaura K. Winston, Roy M. Rosin, Kevin G. Volpp, Ian J. Barnett, Douglas J. Wiebe, Scott D. Halpern, M. Kit Delgado

Increasing goals of care conversations in primary care: Study protocol for a cluster randomized, pragmatic, sequential multiple assignment randomized trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials
July 27, 2024
David B Bekelman, Karleen Giannitrapani, Kristin A Linn, Paula Langner, Rebecca L Sudore, Borsika Rabin, Karl A Lorenz, Mary Beth Foglia, Amanda Glickman, Scott Pawlikowski, Marilyn Sloan, Raziel C Gamboa, Matthew D McCaa, Anne Hines, Anne M Walling

Real-world comparison of health care costs of venetoclax-obinutuzumab vs Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor use among US Medicare beneficiaries with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the frontline setting

JMCP
July 24, 2024
Scott F Huntington, Beenish S Manzoor, Dureshahwar Jawaid, Justin T Puckett, Nnadozie Emechebe, Arliene Ravelo, Sachin Kamal-Bahl, Jalpa A Doshi

Factors associated with the COVID-19 booster vaccine intentions of young adults in the United States

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
July 24, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, Stephen Bonett, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Melanie Kornides, Karen Glanz, Antonia Villarruel, José Bauermeister

Behavioral Economics to Enhance Food Is Medicine Programs

JAMA Network
July 12, 2024
Kevin G. Volpp, Cait Lamberton

Feedback and Financial Incentives for Reducing Cell Phone Use While Driving

JAMA Network
July 10, 2024
M. Kit Delgado, Jeffrey P. Ebert, Ruiying A. Xiong, Flaura K. Winston, Catherine C. McDonald, Roy M. Rosin, Kevin G. Volpp, Ian J. Barnett, Dylan S. Small, Douglas J. Wiebe, Dina Abdel-Rahman, Jessica E. Hemmons, Rafi Finegold, Benjamin Kotrc, Emma Radford, William J. Fisher, Kristen L. Gaba, William C. Everett, Scott D. Halpern