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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.

Food is Medicine Interventions to Improve Health

Annual Review of Medicine
August 14, 2026
Berkowitz SA, Seligman HK, Volpp KG.

SNAP disruption during a government shutdown and implications for chronic disease self-management: a qualitative study

Health Affairs Scholar
August 10, 2026
Whidden E, Ellingson N, Babbin C, Kinsey EW, Richterman A.

Behaviorally informed electronic health record decision support to reduce urine drug testing and testing disparities at birth: a quality improvement study

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: Maternal-Fetal Medicine
August 1, 2026
Elizabeth Kravitz, MD; Abike James, MD, MPH; Sarita Sonalkar, MD, MPH; Lori Christ, MD; Arielle Berk, BSBA; Laurel Adams, MBA; Ruiying Xiong, MS; Lin Xu, MS; Arleen Lopez, BS; Jeffery Ebert, PhD; M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS; Nia Bhadra Heintz, MD, MS

Support for an Added-Sugar Menu-Labeling Policy among Key United States Population Groups in a Cross-Sectional Sample

Current Developments in Nutrition
July 22, 2026
Brittany Lemmon, Alexandria E. Reimold, Aviva A. Musicus, Christina A. Roberto, Sarah Sorscher, DeAnna Nara, Marissa G. Hall, Susan D. Brown, Lauren E. Au, Jennifer Falbe

Eco-Focused Menu Labels on Full Meal Orders From Fast-Food Restaurants: A Randomized Clinical Trial

JAMA Health Forum
July 10, 2026
Julia A. Wolfson; Anna Claire Tucker; Alexandria E. Reimold; Aviva Musicus; Nina Carr; Brent F. Kim; Raychel Santo; Clara Cho; Daphene Abigail Barquera Guevara; Erin Choi; Cindy W. Leung; Christina A. Roberto; Jennifer Falbe

Erratum to “Changing portion size labels of main courses to encourage selection of smaller portions when dining out: A randomized controlled field experiment” [Appetite 221 (2026) 108494]

Appetite
July 1, 2026
Sophia V. Hua; Christina A. Roberto; Emily Yam; Eliza Leone; Laura A. Gibson; Eric B. Rimm

Effects of added-sugar warning labels on restaurant menus in the USA: an online randomised controlled trial

The Lancet Public Health
June 1, 2026
Yuru Huang, Brittany Lemmon, Aviva A. Musicus, Christina A. Roberto, Marissa G. Hall, Jennifer Falbe

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