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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.

Produce pop-ups to increase food accessibility among students

Academic Medicine
April 1, 2026
Sriya Potluri, Jaya Aysola

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

Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out: A randomized controlled field experiment

Appetite
March 2, 2026
Sophia V Hua, Christina A Roberto, Emily Yam, Eliza Leone, Laura A Gibson, Eric B Rimm

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

The impact of restaurant menu eco labels on consumer meal selections: a randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
January 8, 2026
Alexandria E. Reimold, Jennifer Falbe, Brent F. Kim, Aviva A. Musicus, Nina Carr, Raychel Santo, Clara Cho, Cindy W. Leung, Christina A. Roberto, Julia A. Wolfson

Identifying ultra-processed foods for policy

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

Point-of-sale sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) warning posters vs. control posters were associated with reductions in school store SSB purchases made by Guatemalan adolescents

Public Health Nutrition
January 2, 2026
Violeta Chacón, Joaquín Barnoya, Laura A. Gibson, Sophia Mus, José Carlos Monzón Fuentes, Alisa Stephens, Marsha Trego, Caitlin Lowery, Christina D. Economos, Alison Tovar, Sara Folta, Christina A. Roberto

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies and Food Insecurity

JAMA Health Forum
December 12, 2025
Sriya Potluri, Atheendar S Venkataramani, Scott A Lorch, Nicholas Illenberger, Sameed Ahmed M Khatana

“High-In” front-of-package labeling of foods high in added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat: A randomized experiment

Appetite
October 20, 2025
Brittany Lemmon, Aviva A Musicus, Anna H Grummon, Marissa G Hall, Christina A Roberto, Eva Greenthal, Jennifer Falbe

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

A Work-Based, Fully Remote, and Peer-Supported Exercise Snack Behavior Change Intervention (MOV’D): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

JMIR Publications
July 8, 2025
Ashley Monteiro, Jessie Moore, Angela Duckworth, Rocky Aikens, James J. Gross, Dan Schwartz, Mike Baiocchi, Judith J. Prochaska, Marily Oppezzo

Front-of-Package Labeling and Stigma

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

A Systematic Review of “Food Is Medicine” Randomized Controlled Trials for Noncommunicable Disease in the United States: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

AHA Journals
June 18, 2025
Hilary K Seligman, Sonia Y Angell, Seth A Berkowitz, Mitchell S V Elkind, Kurt Hager, Nathalie Moise, Hannah Posner, Jen Muse, Angela Odoms-Young, Ronit Ridberg, Andrea B Troxel, Amy L Yaroch, Kevin G Volpp

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

The role of dignity in food assistance: Participant experiences with a free meal kit program

Social Science & Medicine
April 26, 2025
Joslyn Brenton, Alyssa Tindall, Karen Glanz, Senbagam Virudachalam

Wash-in and washout effects: mitigating bias in short term dietary and other trials

BMJ
April 22, 2025
David S Ludwig, Walter C Willett, Mary E Putt