Appreciate the active engagement by so many at healthcarebyfood ⁦American Heart Association⁩ - great opportunity to learn from each other!

Appreciate best selling author and beloved ⁦The Wharton School colleague⁩ ⁦Katy Milkman⁩ delivering remarks on #behaviorchange at #healthcarebyfood ⁦American Heart Association⁩ ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩

Full house to hear Shelby Reed ⁦⁦⁦Duke Clinical Research Institute⁩ kick off day 2 #healthcarebyfood ⁦American Heart Association⁩ with primer on #costeffectiveness - a big focus of AHA’s Health Care by Food initiative

Outstanding leadership from ⁦Stacey Chang⁩ ⁦Natalie Privett⁩ for workshopping at #healthcarebyfood ⁦American Heart Association⁩ - grateful to them and Andrew Do and ⁦Lara Chehab⁩ for their efforts helping our teams use #humancentereddesign to help study participants

Synthesizing the feedback from the group - design experts ⁦Stacey Chang⁩ ⁦Natalie Privett⁩ #healthcarebbyfood ⁦AHA Science⁩ ⁦American Heart Association⁩ ⁦nancyatheart⁩ ⁦The Wharton School⁩

Appreciate ⁦The Wharton School⁩ Dean ⁦Erika H. James⁩ inspiring remarks to ⁦American Heart Association⁩ #healthcarebyfood grantees - she quoted Nobel Prize winner Albert von Szent Gyorgi: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought”

So many good ideas from this ⁦American Heart Association⁩ #healthcarebyfood meeting - lots of work to do! @stacey_chang ⁦Natalie Privett⁩ ⁦The Wharton School⁩ ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩

And it’s a wrap ⁦American Heart Association⁩ #healthcarebyfood inaugural gathering ⁦The Wharton School⁩ - so much wonderful discussion. Love the dedication of this group to improving health!! ⁦The Rockefeller Foundation⁩ ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩ ⁦nancyatheart⁩

It was clear when we recruited Harsha Thirumurthy to Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ that he was a top notch scholar with significant leadership potential. Glad to see him chosen by UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy for this role

It has never made sense to me that insurers charge copayments for high value medications for which we know non-adherence is problematic. If a clinician decides a patient needs a medication why are copayments used to force patients to decide whether they really need it?

Appreciate American Heart Association creating this opportunity - lots of opportunities to improve #healthequity and determine what type of programs are cost effective for whom

🚨New Paper in nature🚨 To simplify & speed up COVID vaxxes in mid-2021, the White House announced free Uber & @Lyft rides to vax sites. Great idea, right? We ran a HUGE experiment: Do free round-trip @Lyft rides to pharmacies boost vaccination? A🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Sometimes research confirms the zeitgeist and sometimes it’s way ahead of the zeitgeist. An example of the latter is this amazingly prescient 2018 paper published in the journal JAMA Cardiology by Kevin Volpp, Harlan Krumholz, and David Asch. Kevin Volpp, the director of the Penn

Gail served on ⁦Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ⁩ advisory board for many years and was very giving of her time and wisdom as she helped us navigate a bipartisan path in an increasingly partisan nation. We will greatly miss her thoughtfulness, perspectives and kindness legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

A recent study found that traffic light & physical activity labels on vending machines ⬆️ healthy beverage purchasing ft. Laura Gibson, Sophia Hua, Jennifer Orr, MSPH, Kevin Volpp, Christina A. Roberto (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy/ Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ) & Alisa Stephens-Shields (Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics) tinyurl.com/f46pxvrm

CHIBE is saddened to announce the passing of former external advisory board member Gail Wilensky, PhD, on July 11. She will be sorely missed. chibe.upenn.edu/blog/chibe-rem…

How can behavioral economics enhance Food is Medicine programs? Read this Viewpoint from Drs. Kevin Volpp and Cait Lamberton jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

If you’re trying to keep drivers from picking up their phones, make it a game! See what led to a 28% reduction in handheld phone use while driving. M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS Penn Medicine pennmedicine.org/news/news-rele…

Way to Health Penn Med Nudge Unit Neda Khan Aaron Leitner Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN Flaura Winston MDPhD rrosin Kevin Volpp Douglas Wiebe Scott Halpern 12/ And see here for the Penn Medicine News summary, thanks for reading! / pennmedicine.org/news/news-rele…

🥗 Behavioral economics could be the key to making Food Is Medicine programs more effective! Check out the new study by LDI Fellows Kevin Volpp & Cait Lamberton in JAMA Health Forum: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…