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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.

A pilot randomized clinical trial of gamification to increase medication adherence

American Heart Journal
March 7, 2026
Alexander C Fanaroff, Kayla Clark, Leslie Reid-Bey, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu, Laurie Norton, Kevin G Volpp

Specialty Oral Anticancer Prescription Fill Rates After Medicare Part D Cost-Sharing Changes in 2024

JAMA Network
December 29, 2025
John K Lin, Pengxiang Li, Xiudong Lei, Sunita M Desai, Jalpa A Doshi

Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Health Behavior Change: A Narrative Review and Analysis

Annual Review of Public Health
December 23, 2025
Karen Glanz, Harsha Thirumurthy, and Natasha Agnes D'cruze

“You could hear their breathing slow down”: insights on a video-based psychosocial support intervention to increase HIV treatment uptake and improve psychosocial well-being among men living with HIV in South Africa

AIDS Care
December 21, 2025
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Mamaswatsi Kopeka, Harsha Thirumurthy, Alison Buttenheim, Mark Lurie, Elzette Rousseau, Philip Smith, Linda-Gail Bekker & Abigail Harrison

Reducing the Out-of-Pocket Costs of Disease-Modifying Therapies for Medicare Beneficiaries With Multiple Sclerosis

Neurology Clinical Practice
September 16, 2025
Pengxiang Li, John K Lin, Matthew J Klebanoff, Riya Palkar, Salim Chahin, Jalpa A Doshi

Behaviourally-Informed Two-Way Text Messaging to Improve Return to HIV Care in South Africa: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial

AIDS and Behavior
July 11, 2025
Christine Njuguna, Preethi Mistri, Lawrence Long, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Alison Buttenheim, Laura Schmucker, Sophie Pascoe, Harsha Thirumurthy, Cara O'Connor, Barry Mutasa, Kate Rees

Inflation Reduction Act Provisions and Medicare Part D Out-of-Pocket Costs for Specialty Drugs

JAMA Health Forum
May 16, 2025
Jalpa A Doshi, Pengxiang Li, Matthew J Klebanoff, John K Lin

Reducing Medicare Part D Out-of-Pocket Costs for Specialty Oral Anticancer Drugs Under the Inflation Reduction Act: Highlighting the Benefits of Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Payment Plan

JCO Oncology Practice
April 25, 2025
Jalpa A Doshi, Pengxiang Li, Shravan Asthana, John K Lin

Change in Default Prescription Length and Statin Prescribing Behavior

JAMA Internal Medicine
April 7, 2025
Mili Mehta, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Corinne M. Rhodes, Aria Xiong, Christopher K. Snider, E. Madeline Grenader, Michael O. Harhay, Nune Mehrabyan, Maryanne K. Peifer, Kevin G. M. Volpp, M. Kit Delgado

Encouraging Pharmacist Referrals for Evidence-Based Statin Initiation

JAMA Cardiology
March 26, 2025
Alexander C. Fanaroff, Qian Huang, Kayla Clark, Laurie A. Norton, Wendell E. Kellum, Dwight Eichelberger, John C. Wood, Zachary Bricker, Andrea G. Dooley Wood, Greta Kemmer, Jennifer I. Smith, Srinath Adusumalli, Mary E. Putt, Kevin G. Volpp

The effect of a social network-based intervention on adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and HIV viral suppression among Kenyan fishermen

AIDS
February 13, 2025
Lila A. Sheira, Zachary A. Kwena, Benard Ayieko, Edwin D. Charlebois, Kawango Agot, Sarah A. Gutin, Jayne Lewis-Kulzer, Phoebe Olugo, Monica Gandhi, Elizabeth A. Bukusi, Harsha Thirumurthy, Daniel Adede, James Moody, Carol S. Camlin

B-OK: A Visual and Tactile Tool for HIV Treatment Adherence Support in a United States Urban Center

AIDS Care
February 4, 2025
Aaron Richterman, Tamar Klaiman, Daniel Palma, Eric Ryu, Laura Schmucker, Katherine Villarin, Gabrielle Grosso, Kathleen A Brady, Harsha Thirumurthy, Alison Buttenheim

Real-World Effectiveness of Long-Acting Injectable and Oral Antipsychotic Agents in US Medicare Patients with Schizophrenia

Advances in Therapy
January 15, 2025
Pengxiang Li, Zhi Geng, Carmela Benson, Charmi Patel, Jalpa A Doshi

Effect of providing at-home opioid disposal kits at discharge after an orthopaedic surgery

BMJ Open Quality
January 2, 2025
Eric Shan, Ruiying Xiong, Michael Katzman, Zarina Ali, Daniel Lee, M Kit Delgado, Anish Agarwal

Real-World Treatment Patterns After Discontinuation of Venetoclax or BTKis in the Frontline Setting Among Older Adults With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

JCO Oncology Practice
December 20, 2024
Scott F Huntington, Joanna M Rhodes, Beenish S Manzoor, Dureshahwar Jawaid, Justin T Puckett, Nnadozie Emechebe, Arliene Ravelo, Sachin Kamal-Bahl, Steven E Marx, Jalpa A Doshi

Opioid prescribing guidelines for spine surgery patients: a multisite analysis of guideline implementation and monitoring with an automated text messaging platform

Journal of Neurosurgery
December 13, 2024
Thilan Tudor, Anish K Agarwal, M Kit Delgado, Daniel J Lee, Jessica T Nguyen, Ruiying Xiong, Ali K Ozturk, Jang W Yoon, William C Welch, Zarina S Ali