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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.

Twitter reveals spatio-temporal variation in vaccine concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa

Preprint
October 20, 2025
Devansh Jain, Sunny Rai, Juhi Mittal, Anietie Andy, Alison M. Buttenheim, Sharath Chandra Guntuku

Different vaccination debunking interventions: a randomized, controlled experiment estimating “backfiring” and positive effects

Vaccine
August 30, 2025
Jennifer C. Morgan, Melanie L. Kornides, Jeremy Lee, Jessica Fishman

Attitudes of California school personnel on potential COVID-19 vaccine mandates and state law SB277 to remove nonmedical vaccine exemptions

Vaccine
February 21, 2025
Matthew Z. Dudley, Alexander J. Zapf, Paul Delamater, Tina M. Proveaux, Holly B. Schuh, Alison M. Buttenheim, Jason L. Schwartz, Nicola P. Klein, Kristin Goddard, Kavin M. Patel, Saad B. Omer, Daniel A. Salmon

A Bundled, Practice-Based Intervention to Increase HPV Vaccination

Pediatrics
January 6, 2025
Peter G. Szilagyi, Alexander G. Fiks, Cynthia M. Rand, Mary Kate Kelly, A. Russell Localio, Christina S. Albertin, Sharon G. Humiston, Robert W. Grundmeier, Jennifer Steffes, Kristin Davis, Laura P. Shone, Greta McFarland, Dianna E. Abney, Alisa J. Stephens-Shields

The Effects of Behaviorally Informed Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions and Behavior: Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments in South Africa

Taylor & Francis
December 19, 2024
Alison M Buttenheim, Timothy Köhler, Katherine Eyal, Brendan Maughan-Brown

Human-Centered Design to Respond to Public Health Crises: Maintaining Canine Rabies Vaccination during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
November 26, 2024
Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Elvis W Díaz, Lizzie Ortiz-Cam, Guillermo Porras, Micaela De La Puente-León, Gian Franco Condori, Olimpia Chuquista-Alcarraz, Sergio E Recuenco, Laura D Tamayo, Alison M Buttenheim, Valerie A Paz-Soldan

Behavioural economics to improve and motivate vaccination in primary care using nudges through the electronic health record: rationale and design of the BE IMMUNE randomised clinical trial

BMJ Open
November 18, 2024
Kimberly Waddell, Shivan J Mehta, Amol Navathe, Kristin Linn, Sae-Hwan Park, Andrew White, Jonathan Staloff, Corinne Rhodes, Chaylin Couzens, Keshav Goel, Caitlin McDonald, Catherine Reitz, Keyirah Williams, Joshua M Liao

Factors associated with the COVID-19 booster vaccine intentions of young adults in the United States

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
July 24, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, Stephen Bonett, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Melanie Kornides, Karen Glanz, Antonia Villarruel, José Bauermeister

“Do not inject our babies”: a social listening analysis of public opinion about authorizing pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

Health Affairs Scholar
July 8, 2024
Aleksandra M Golos, Sharath-Chandra Guntuku, Alison M Buttenheim

Acceptability, facilitators, and barriers to a hypothetical HIV vaccine in the pre-exposure prophylaxis era

AIDS Care
July 4, 2024
Aaron Richterman, Caroline O’Brien, Fatemeh Ghadimi, Elijah Sumners, Andre Ford, Nafisah Houston, Sebrina Tate, Nancy Aitcheson, Hervette Nkwihoreze, John B. Jemmott 3rd & Florence Momplaisir

Megastudy shows that reminders boost vaccination but adding free rides does not

Nature
June 26, 2024
Katherine L. Milkman, Sean F. Ellis, Dena M. Gromet, Youngwoo Jung, Alex S. Luscher, Rayyan S. Mobarak, Madeline K. Paxson, Ramon A. Silvera Zumaran, Robert Kuan, Ron Berman, Neil A. Lewis Jr, John A. List, Mitesh S. Patel, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp, Maryann V. Beauvais, Jonathon K. Bellows, Cheryl A. Marandola & Angela L. Duckworth

Psychosocial correlates of parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children against COVID-19

PLOS One
June 24, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, Stephen Bonett, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Andrew Kim, Melanie L. Kornides, John B. Jemmott, Karen Glanz, Antonia M. Villarruel, José A. Bauermeister

Engaging Trusted Messengers to Increase COVID-19 Pediatric Vaccine Uptake in Philadelphia: Lessons from the VaxUpPhillyFamilies program

Science Direct
June 8, 2024
Sarah Badlis, Haolong Yu, Heather Klusaritz, Andy S L Tan, Teresa Dooley, Helaine Heggs, Sophia Collins, Gabriela Raczka, Naomi DeRoche-Brown, Rachel Feuerstein-Simon, José A Bauermeister, Antonia M Villarruel, Stephen Bonett, Karen Glanz, Terri Lipman

Trust in Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Oversight and Parents’ Willingness To Vaccinate Their Children Against COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

BMC Public Health
March 16, 2024
Hyunmin Yu, José A. Bauermeister, Ufuoma Oyiborhoro, Subhash Aryal, Terri H. Lipman, Andy S. L. Tan, Karen Glanz, Antonia M. Villarruel & Stephen Bonett

Mobile Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines Improved Uptake in Rural Sierra Leone

Nature
March 13, 2024
Alison Buttenheim & Harsha Thirumurthy

Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Completion by 13: A Quality Improvement Initiative in a Large Primary Care Network

Academic Pediatrics
March 1, 2024
Elena Huang, Kathleen Filograna, Katie K. Lockwood, Jonathan Crossette, Brian P. Jenssen