# NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health

> **NIH NIH P30** · NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH · 2020 · $531,220

## Abstract

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health – Overall
Health outcomes are affected by myriad mechanisms, including behaviors. An important question is how such
behaviors might be influenced in ways that improve health outcomes on a broad population-wide scale. The
NBER Roybal Center explores this question by conducting carefully-designed experimental interventions with
analytic and theoretical foundations in the behavioral sciences. The interventions are selected to be cost-
effective and scalable. Among the categories of health-related behavior we plan to study are interventions to
improve nutrition; interventions to increase exercise; interventions to overcome addiction, including tobacco,
alcohol, and opioids; interventions to promote preventive care, including vaccinations and incremental utilization
of workplace wellness programs; interventions to improve medical adherence, including the filling of
pharmaceutical prescriptions; and interventions to improve the decisions of health care providers, including
applications of machine learning. The research plan is strengthened by a partnership with Geisinger Clinic, a
non-profit health care network and insurer with a rich history of innovative delivery reforms and experimental
research to improve population health in an active, well-integrated, health care delivery and community health
setting. The NBER-Geisinger partnership provides a core infrastructure for implementing experimental
interventions on-site with an engaged and committed health care delivery partner. The Center also engages a
collaborative network of leading behavioral scientists from multiple disciplines who conduct the experimental
interventions, share research activities and findings, collaborate on joint projects, and brainstorm new
intervention opportunities, building from findings in basic science. This application renews the NBER Roybal
Center for the next five years.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10017809
- **Project number:** 5P30AG034532-12
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- **Principal Investigator:** JOSEPH J DOYLE
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $531,220
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2009-09-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10017809

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10017809, NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health (5P30AG034532-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10017809. Licensed CC0.

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