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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.

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

Use of Large Language Models to Determine the Surveillance Colonoscopy Interval: A Bi-institutional Validation Study

The American Journal of Gastroenterology
November 24, 2025
Vedant Acharya, Shivan J Mehta, Daniel A Sussman, Vignesh Kumaresan, Jonathan England, Tessa S Cook, S Barry Issenberg, Amar R Deshpande

Pragmatic Interventions to Boost Surveillance Mammogram Uptake Among an Overdue Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Internal Medicine
November 10, 2025
Soo-Chin Lee, Sasidharan Swarnalatha Lucky, Junxian Zhu, Samuel Ow, Lukas Loh, Jun Hui Tan, Siew Eng Lim, Zarinah Hairom, Shivan Mehta, Bee-Choo Tai, Boon-Cher Goh

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

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
September 20, 2025
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

Effective Implementation of Population Health Outreach to Increase Breast Cancer Screening

Journal of General Internal Medicine
September 15, 2025
Maxim Yaskolko, Catherine Reitz, Christopher K. Snider, Stephanie Subbio, Caitlin Brophy, Shivan J. Mehta & Corinne Rhodes

Behavioral Economic Framing for Enrollment and Retention of Patients in Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring

JAMA Network
September 2, 2025
Shivan J. Mehta, Joseph Teel, Evelyn Okorie, Catherine Reitz, Alison Purcell, Christopher K. Snider, Kayla Clark, Rebecca C. Kersting, Karen Glanz, Mary Putt, Charles Rareshide, Kevin G. Volpp

Default Bulk Ordering and Text Messaging to Enhance Outreach for Lipid Screening

JAMA Cardiology
January 29, 2025
Catherine Pollak, Andrew Parambath, Samantha Coratti, Laurie Norton, Anthony Girard, Catherine Reitz, Christopher K. Snider, Lin Xu, Zakiya Walker, Aileen John, Mary E. Putt, Kevin G. Volpp, Shivan J. Mehta

Increasing screening for breast cancer using a randomized evaluation of electronic health record nudges: Design and rationale of the I-screen clinical trial

Contemporary Clinical Trials
January 29, 2025
Kimberly J Waddell, Shivan J Mehta, Joshua M Liao, Kristin A Linn, Saehwan Park, Corinne M Rhodes, Caitlin Brophy, Catherine Reitz, Deborah S Cousins, Keyirah Williams, Esther J Thatcher, Ryan Muskin, Peter J Pronovost, Amol S Navathe

Utilizing Quality Improvement Methodology to Address Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening Between Faculty and Resident Physicians

Journal of General Internal Medicine
December 9, 2024
Kevin Tang, Sabrina Layne, Sarju Panchal, Shivan Mehta, Corinne Rhodes, Neha Patel, Amber Bird

Behavioural economics to improve and motivate vaccination in primary care using nudges through the electronic health record: rationale and design of the BE IMMUNE randomised clinical trial

BMJ Open
November 18, 2024
Kimberly Waddell, Shivan J Mehta, Amol Navathe, Kristin Linn, Sae-Hwan Park, Andrew White, Jonathan Staloff, Corinne Rhodes, Chaylin Couzens, Keshav Goel, Caitlin McDonald, Catherine Reitz, Keyirah Williams, Joshua M Liao

Design and Rationale of Penn Medicine Healthy Heart, a Randomized Trial of Effectiveness of a Centrally Organized Approach to Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Improvement Among Patients at Elevated Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease

American Heart Journal
September 27, 2024
Kevin G Volpp, K Mahraj, LA Norton, DA Asch, K Glanz, SJ Mehta, M Balasta, W Kellum, J Wood, LB Russell, AC Fanaroff, S Bakshi, D Jacoby, JB Cohen, MJ Press, K Clark, J Zhu, C Rareside, LE Ashcraft, C Snider, ME Putt

University of Pennsylvania Telehealth Research Center of Excellence

JNCI Monographs
June 26, 2024
Jocelyn V Wainwright, Charu Aggarwal, Sarah Beucker, David W Dougherty, Peter E Gabriel, Linda A Jacobs, Jillian Kalman, Kristin A Linn, Anthony O Martella, Shivan J Mehta, Corinne M Rhodes, Megan Roy, Marilyn M Schapira, Lawrence N Shulman, Jennifer Steltz, Alisa J Stephens Shields, Andy S L Tan, Jeffrey C Thompson, Hannah Toneff, Richard C Wender, Sana Zeb, Katharine A Rendle, Anil Vachani, Justin E Bekelman; Penn TRACE

Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring With Social Support for Patients With Hypertension: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Network Open
June 3, 2024
Shivan J Mehta, Kevin G Volpp, Andrea B Troxel, Joseph Teel, Catherine R Reitz, Alison Purcell, Humphrey Shen, Kiernan McNelis, Christopher K Snider, David A Asch

Behavioral Interventions to Improve Breast Cancer Screening Outreach: Two Randomized Clinical Trials

JAMA
May 6, 2024
Shivan J Mehta, Corinne Rhodes, Kristin A Linn, Catherine Reitz, Caitlin McDonald, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, David Resnick, Annamaria Arostegui, Timothy McAuliffe, Colin Wollack, Christopher K Snider, MaryAnne K Peifer, Susan P Weinstein

A Randomized Trial of Choice Architecture and Mailed Colorectal Cancer Screening Outreach in a Community Health Setting

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Journal
April 30, 2024
Shivan J Mehta, Sanjay Palat, Caitlin McDonald, Catherine Reitz, Evelyn Okorie, Keyirah Williams, Jinming Tao, Pamela A Shaw, Karen Glanz, David A Asch

A Synthesis of Evidence for Policy From Behavioural Science During COVID-19

Hepatology Communications
December 15, 2023
Shivan J. Mehta, Caitlin McDonald, Catherine Reitz, Shivani Kastuar, Christopher K. Snider, Evelyn Okorie, Kiernan McNelis, Hamzah Shaikh, Tessa S. Cook, David S. Goldberg, Kenneth Rothstein