'Research from Penn's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics found that gaming and financial incentives delivered through daily messages prompted people to increase their exercise routines.' PhillyVoice phillyvoice.com/exercise-motiv…

Dr. Christina Roberto speaks on this podcast about why we need front-of-packaging food labeling: 'We want to be in a place where that information is prominent, it’s easily accessible, and it’s easy to understand...' World Food Policy Center at Duke wfpc.sanford.duke.edu/podcasts/e236-…

Congratulations to Harsha Thirumurthy (@PennMEHP/ Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ) & Papa Kwadwo Morgan-Asiedu, MPH (@PennMedicine) on being named 2024 CGH Robert Suskind & Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Faculty & Medical Student Global Health Awardees! tinyurl.com/52khkja3

Congrats to CHIBE Associate Director Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy (Harsha Thirumurthy), who has officially been named Chief of the Division of Health Policy at Penn! UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy

Excited for the start of #healthcarebyfood @american_heart inaugural grantee workshop - we have 100 members of grantee teams here ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩ ⁦The Wharton School⁩ to think through gaps and opportunities in Food is Medicine together ⁦Mariell Jessup⁩ ⁦nancyatheart⁩

Join us at noon EST this Thursday for a talk about the welfare implications of increased retailer participation in SNAP with Jessie Handbury!

For more info, go to tinyurl.com/jhandbury.

Congrats to Paula Chatterjee, who has received the Blockley-Osler teaching award from the Perelman School of Medicine! 'I’m very grateful for the Blockley-Osler award and indebted to Judy Shea for putting together my nomination,” Dr. Chatterjee said. chibe.upenn.edu/news/dr-chatte…

📣 The Penn community is invited to join us at the DBEI Chair's Seminar (May 1, 2-3PM) in 701 Blockley Hall for an engaging discussion on the barriers to #equity and #inclusion in #research led by the Joint Research Practices Working Group of PennCHIBE and PAIR Center.

Check out the latest issue of our newsletter, featuring stories on CHIBE's research on the Today Show, secrets to sustainable workouts, staff and faculty awards, and more. conta.cc/3JvxCC6

🚨New Paper🚨
Economics says: pay people directly for goal achievement.
A new field experiment led by Haas School of Business Prof. Rachel Gershon shows higher achievement if you pay people only if they and a friend both achieve their goal (here, gym attendance).👉bit.ly/3JnsIXG

People who were given incentives to exercise more for a year — including daily feedback and cash rewards — added 1,500 steps (about 3/4 of a mile) to their daily step counts, according to new research. Alex Fanaroff Kevin Volpp washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…

Join M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS (M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS), Director
Penn Med Nudge Unit ;Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ Penn Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research Penn LDI Penn Injury Science Center Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics for our #DBMIGrandRounds on WED, April 17 at 12PM CT.

He'll present his talk REMOTELY. Room/Teams info: vumc.org/dbmi/vumc-dbmi… VUMC Emergency Medicine VUMC Emergency Medicine Research

CHIBE's study on gamification and financial incentives to increase physical activity among patients at high risk of cardiovascular events was featured on the TODAY! Alex Fanaroff Kevin Volpp Penn Medicine youtube.com/watch?v=GCYlZj…

Excited to share the great work of my friends & colleagues Michael L. Barnett & Matt Press tomorrow with the Senate Finance Committee.

10AM ET Tomorrow - Come check it out!

finance.senate.gov/hearings/bolst…

So proud of Kayla Clark for her contributions to #cardiovascularriskreduction ⁦Penn Medicine⁩ ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩ - she has done much to prevent #ascvd risk in our patients. Seen here with ⁦@Penn⁩ President ⁦Larry Jameson receiving models of excellence award 2024

great team effort: MPI Alex Fanaroff , original MPI Mitesh Patel, Neel Chokshi, MD MBA, Louise Russell, Dylan Small, Samantha Coratti, Dave Farraday, Laurie Norton, Tamar Kleiman, Charles Rareshide, Jingsan Zhu Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ Penn Medicine

See this design for GAMEPAD, a virtual, pragmatic randomized clinical trial of a home-based walking intervention informed by concepts from behavioral economics to increase physical activity and quality of life in patients with peripheral artery disease. bit.ly/3VPsVKQ

Congrats to Shivan Mehta, the ACTS 2024 Distinguished Investigator for Translation from Proof of Concept to Widespread Clinical Practice!
chti.upenn.edu/shivan-mehta-n…

Join us at noon on 4/25/24 at CPC Aud. for a talk about insurance against health shocks in the tax code: eligibility and take-up with Dr. Gopi Shah Goda!

For more info, go to tinyurl.com/shahgoda.

Thank you to Gopi Shah Goda and our co-sponsor Penn LDI!

Strategies such as earning points or small amounts of money encouraged people at high risk for heart disease or stroke to increase their daily walking by about 10% and sustain the increase for a year, according to new research. dicardiology.com/content/incent…