SELECTED PROJECTS

We support the goals of scientific research teams, domestic and international governments, and industry. Please let us know if we can potentially help you.

Here are some examples of our collaborations:

• Our Director, Jessica Fishman, Ph.D., spoke again to the World Bank. She discussed how public health initiatives can use effective strategies to increase healthy behaviors.
• We continue to share expertise with the World Bank on the design of effective behavior change interventions that improve public health.
• We developed an early alert system that predicts with 100% accuracy which patients will not adhere to a clinical recommendation and with 93% accuracy which patients will adhere.
• In collaboration with Penn Medicine, we developed text messages that increased adherence among OBGYN clinic patients by approximately 30%.
• Working with Penn Medicine and the NIH, we identified message content that increases COVID-19 testing and reduces COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
• In partnership with international governments, including the Government of Canada (Behavioural Science Impact and Innovation Unit, Privy Council Office) and the Government of Ghana (Ministry of Education), we are sharing strategies to increase healthy behaviors.
• With support from the Centers for Disease Control, we are working with experts to increase firearm safety behaviors.
• With our input, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health established a vaccine incentive program.
• In collaboration with The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, we have developed text message content that increases flu vaccination appointment scheduling and actual vaccination.
• Also in collaboration with The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, we are fighting period poverty by helping girls in homeless shelters get the menstrual products they need to stay in school. 
• We have been scientifically advising companies, including Wawa and Independence Blue Cross/Blue Shield, that want to implement proven-effective behavior change strategies.