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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.

Adapting and Scaling a Proven Diabetes Prevention Program Across 11 Worksites in India: The INDIA-WORKS Trial

Implementation Science Communications
November 13, 2023
Mary Beth Weber, Elizabeth C. Rhodes, Harish Ranjani, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Mohammed K. Ali, Monique M. Hennink, Ranjit M. Anjana, Viswanathan Mohan, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran

Improving HIV Testing, Linkage, and Retention in Care Among South African Men Through U=U Messaging: A Study Protocol for Two Sequential Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness- Implementation Randomized Controlled Trials

BMC Public Health
October 4, 2023
Andrew Medina-Marino, Nkosiyapha Sibanda, Mary Putt, Dvora Joseph Davey, Phillip Smith, Harsha Thirumurthy, Linda-Gail Bekker, Alison Buttenheim

Financial Hardship in Families of Children or Adolescents With Cancer: A Systematic Literature Review

The Lancet Oncology
September 1, 2023
Julie Ritter, Savannah Allen, Phillip D. Cohen, Andrés Felipe Fajardo, Kelsey Marx, Patrícia Loggetto, Carmen Auste, Hedley Lewis, Karla Emília de Sá Rodrigues, Sharmeen Hussain, Ayomide Omotola, Nancy S. Bolous, Harsha Thirumurthy, Beverley M. Essue, Eva Steliarova-Foucher, I-Chan Huang, Filip Meheus, Nickhill Bhakta

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

medRxiv
August 9, 2023
Simamkele Bokolo, Suzanne Mabaso, Wentzel Kruger, Preethi Mistri, Laura Schmucker, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Sophie J S Pascoe, Alison Buttenheim, Harsha Thirumurthy, Lawrence Long

Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Adults in South Africa: Multimethod Evidence From a Population-Based Longitudinal Study

BMJ Global Health
August 4, 2023
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Katherine Claire Eyal, Lindokuhle Njozela, Alison M. Buttenheim

Maximising the Value of Nudge Units for Global Health

The Lancet Global Health
July 21, 2023
Harsha Thirumurthy, Alison M. Buttenheim, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Sophie Pascoe

The Effects of Cash Transfers on Adult and Child Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Nature
May 31, 2023
Aaron Richterman, Christophe Millien, Elizabeth F. Bair, Gregory Jerome, Jean Christophe Dimitri Suffrin, Jere R. Behrman & Harsha Thirumurthy

Awareness, Use and Understanding of Nutrition Labels Among Children and Youth From Six Countries: Findings From the 2019 – 2020 International Food Policy Study

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
May 4, 2023
David Hammond, Rachel B. Acton, Vicki L. Rynard, Christine M. White, Lana Vanderlee, Jasmin Bhawra, Marcela Reyes, Alejandra Jáuregui, Jean Adams, Christina A. Roberto, Gary Sacks, James F. Thrasher

Impact of a Tobacco Sales Ban on the Frequency of Tobacco Consumption in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tobacco Induced Diseases
April 29, 2023
Nitika Sharma, Mansi Chopra, Linda Bauld, Gaurang P. Nazar, Nishigandha Joshi, Aastha Chugh, Sailesh Mohan, Deepa Mohan, Mohammed K. Ali, Vishwanathan Mohan, Nikhil Tandon, Venkat K. M. Narayan, K. Srinath Reddy, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Monika Arora

Access to Oral Fluid-Based Human Immunodeficiency Virus Self-Tests Increases Testing Among Male Partners of Adolescent Girls in Kenya: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of Adolescent Health
April 18, 2023
Gift-Noelle Wango, Averi Chakrabarti, Elizabeth F. Bair, Harsha Thirumurthy, Marylyn Ochillo, Olivia Okumu, Lennah Oluoch, Ezina Kemunto, Risper Bosire, Sue Napierala, Kawango Agot

Improving Health Outcomes of People With Diabetes: Target Setting for the WHO Global Diabetes Compact

The Lancet
April 15, 2023
Edward W. Gregg, James Buckley, Mohammed K. Ali, Justine Davies, David Flood, Roopa Mehta, Ben Griffiths, Lee-Ling Lim, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Nikhil Tandon, Gojka Roglic, Slim Slama, Jonathan E. Shaw

Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review and Future Directions for Research

BMJ Global Health
April 1, 2023
Henning Schröder, H. Manisha Yapa, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Harsha Thirumurthy, Janet Seeley, Till Bärnighausen, Jan-Walter De Neve

Routine Child Immunizations in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic

SSM - Population Health
March 15, 2023
Averi Chakrabarti, Elizabeth F. Bair, Harsha Thirumurthy

A Randomized Trial of Price Subsidies for Liquefied Petroleum Cooking Gas Among Low-Income Households in Rural India

World Development Perspectives
March 10, 2023
Marc Jeuland, Manish A. Desai, Elizabeth F. Bair, Nafeesa Mohideen Abdul Cader, Durairaj Natesan, Wilson Jayakaran Isaac, Sankar Sambandam, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Gurusamy Thangavel, Harsha Thirumurthy

Cost-Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Quality Improvement Care Model for Diabetes in South Asia: The CARRS Randomized Clinical Trial

Diabetic Medicine
February 23, 2023
Kavita Singh, Dimple Kondal, V. Usha Menon, Premlata K. Varthakavi, Vijay Viswanathan, Mala Dharmalingam, Ganapati Bantwal, Rakesh Kumar Sahay, Muhammad Qamar Masood, Rajesh Khadgawat, Ankush Desai, Prabhakaran Dorairaj, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Victoria L. Phillips, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammed K. Ali

Cost of Home-Based Couples Human Immunodeficiency Virus Counseling and Testing and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Self-Testing During Pregnancy and Postpartum in Southwestern Kenya

Value in Health Regional Issues
January 28, 2023
Seth J. Borgstede, Assurah Elly, Anna Helova, Zachary Kwena, Lynae A. Darbes, Abigail Hatcher, Harsha Thirumurthy, George Owino, Maria Pisu, Kevin Owuor, Thomas Braun, Janet M. Turan, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Van T. Nghiem