BETTER HEART: Behavioral Science Strategies to Increase Hypertension Diagnosis and Treatment

A Type 1 Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Evaluation of a City-Level Transitional Housing Program's Effects on Health, Economic, and Psychologic Outcomes Among People with HIV

The effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries

IBIS: Transformative approaches to rapidly and efficiently test demand creation interventions to promote HIV retesting in adults at increased risk of HIV

PROTECT: Inoculating and boosting against HIV vaccine misinformation among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa

Evaluating B-OK bottles to improve evidence-based HIV medication adherence counseling

Improving HIV testing, linkage, and retention in care for men through U=U messaging in South Africa

Improving participation in vector-borne disease control campaigns in Peru

Akiba: A savings intervention to reduce men’s engagement in HIV risk behaviors

Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Messaging Increases Uptake of HIV Testing Among Men: Results from a Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial

Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-tests: an Innovative Strategy for Promoting Partner Testing and Reducing HIV Risk

Indlela: Behavioural Insights for Better Health

In this issue of The Lancet Public Health, Aaron Richterman and Harsha Thirumurthy discuss the article “Rx Kids: Designing Cash Transfers as Health Policy,” which provides new insights into when cash transfers can most effectively improve health outcomes.

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

Researchers from the BEGIN Lab co-authored a new paper in BMJ Global Health. "Characterising concerns and misinformation shaping global HIV vaccine confidence and demand: a structured literature search and content analysis."

B-OK: a visual and tactile tool for improving HIV mental models in a United States urban center

Mental Bandwidth is Associated with HIV and Viral Suppression Among Low-Income Women in Philadelphia

Mobile delivery of COVID-19 vaccines improved uptake in rural Sierra Leone

Ending Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Emergency Allotments and Food Insufficiency

Maximising the value of nudge units for global health

We must invest in behavioural economics for the HIV response

A Randomized Trial of Price Subsidies for Liquefied Petroleum Cooking Gas among Low-income Households in Rural India

A savings intervention to reduce men’s engagement in HIV risk behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

A quasi-experimental cohort study evaluating a conditional economic incentive on first-dose COVID-19 vaccination rates among older adults in South Africa

Planning and commitment prompts to encourage reporting of HIV self-test results: A cluster randomized pragmatic trial in Tshwane District, South Africa

Incentives to promote accessing HIV care and viral suppression among HIV self-screening test users who obtain a reactive result

Using Behavioral Economics to Support PrEP Adherence for HIV Prevention

Testing a social network approach to promote HIV self-testing and linkage to care among fishermen at Lake Victoria: study protocol for the Owete cluster randomized controlled trial

Behavioural science to improve effectiveness of HIV programmes, South Africa

Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru

Participatory Prototyping of a Tailored Undetectable Equals Untransmittable Message to Increase HIV Testing Among Men in Western Cape, South Africa

Systematic review of clinician-directed nudges in healthcare contexts

Transforming Mental Health Care Delivery Through Implementation Science and Behavioral Economics

Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Messaging Increases Uptake of HIV Testing Among Men: Results from a Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial

Behavioral Insights Into Micronutrient Powder Use for Childhood Anemia in Arequipa, Peru

A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru

A qualitative study of secondary distribution of HIV self-test kits by female sex workers in Kenya

Brendan Maughan-Brown and research colleagues Alison Buttenheim and Harsha Thirumurthy created a series of short TikTok videos designed to “pre-bunk” misinformation about LENS (Lenacapavir, or LEN)

Dr. Brendan Maughan-Brown discusses misinformation threats to lenacapavir rollout in South Africa

BEGIN Lab’s Aaron Richterman, MD MPH, and Harsha Thirumurthy have a new article in The Atlantic, “Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives,” which examines when cash-transfer programs improve health outcomes.

Dr. Aaron Richterman was quoted in a new article by Billy Penn at WHYY. “Not a ‘scale back,’ this is a dismantling of our program”: HIV funding cuts impact vulnerable communities

Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy was recently quoted in The New York Times article, “A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash.”

Alison Buttenheim, Harsha Thirumurthy, and two colleagues from Wits University in South Africa published a commentary in The Lancet Global Health - Maximising the value of nudge units for global health. The commentary reflects on the work of the Indlela nudge unit in South Africa over the past three years. It also addresses the need for nudge units and behavioral scientists engaged in global health research to invest in strengthening local capacity.

BEGIN Lab Co-Director Alison Buttenheim co-authors the Indlela NUDGE Handbook, a practical guide to applying behavioral insights to challenges in HIV service delivery