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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.

Understanding HIV Vaccine Misinformation and Vaccine Intentions Among Young Women in South Africa: Insights from an Online Survey

AIDS and Behavior
April 21, 2026
Brendan Maughan-Brown, Teniola I. Egbe, Simamkele Bokolo, Megan Rabin, Candice Chetty-Makkan, Melanie Kornides, Lawrence Long, Sophie Pascoe, Sarah Penuela-Wermers, Sander van der Linden, Harsha Thirumurthy, Alison M. Buttenheim

Characterising concerns and misinformation shaping global HIV vaccine confidence and demand: a structured literature search and content analysis

BMJ Global Health
January 8, 2026
Simamkele Bokolo, Megan Rabin, Sarah Penuela-Wermers, Candice Maylene Chetty-Makkan, Teniola I. Egbe, Harsha Thirumurthy, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Alison Buttenheim

Targeting behavioral interventions based on past behavior: Evidence from vaccine uptake

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
January 1, 2026
Ilana Brody, Hengchen Dai, Silvia Saccardo, Katherine L. Milkman, Angela L. Duckworth, Mitesh S. Patel, Dena M. Gromet

In a shifting policy era: California provider knowledge and practice of medical exemption laws during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vaccine
January 1, 2026
Holly B Schuh, Paul Delamater, Tina M Proveaux, Matthew Z Dudley, Alison M Buttenheim, Jason L Schwartz, Nicola P Klein, Kristin Goddard, Kavin M Patel, Saad B Omer, Daniel A Salmon

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

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