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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.

Modeling the Make America Healthy Again’s Food Policy Strategy on Tobacco

JAMA Health Forum
March 13, 2026
Christina A. Roberto, Alyssa J. Moran, Emily Broad Leib

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

Identifying ultra-processed foods for policy

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

Now is the time to recognize and respond to addiction to ultra-processed foods

Nature Medicine
July 25, 2025
Erica M. LaFata, Alyssa J. Moran, Nora D. Volkow & Ashley N. Gearhardt

Front-of-Package Labeling and Stigma

JAMA Network Open
June 20, 2025
Aviva A. Musicus, Alyssa J. Moran

Early SNAP Emergency Allotment Withdrawal and Household Food Insufficiency

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
June 11, 2025
C. Ross Hatton, Erin R. Hager, Alyssa J. Moran, Jason P. Block, Joshua Petimar

A Natural Experiment to Evaluate Changes in Kids’ Meal Beverages in Fast-food Restaurants Following a Healthy Default Policy, 2019-2022

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietrics
March 27, 2025
Angie L Cradock, Jessica L Barrett, Jason P Block, Amy A Bolton, Carolyn Bresnahan, Lisa Harnack, Stephanie McCulloch, Christina A Roberto, Kristine Wiant, Alyssa Moran

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program issuance timing is associated with sugar-sweetened beverage marketing in the USA

Public Health Nutrition
September 23, 2024
Jane Dai, Erica L Kenney, Mark J Soto, Anthony Zhong, Alyssa J Moran, Emily M Broad Leib, Sara N Bleich

Sodium Reduction Is A Proven Strategy That Saves Lives—More Work Is Needed To Hold Industry Accountable

Health Affairs
August 16, 2024
Alyssa J. Moran, Marlene Schwartz, Christina A. Roberto

GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity

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