# Pilot Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH · 2022 · $324,643

## Abstract

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health – Pilot Core
The pilot core is the scientific focus of the Center. Through experimental pilot awards, the core tests cost-
effective, scalable interventions that nudge behavior in ways that are likely to improve health outcomes. Up to
four pilot projects will be initiated in each year of the Center. The experimental interventions will include natural
experiments, field experiments and laboratory experiments; and will be designed from decision-making
mechanisms with analytic and theoretical foundations in the behavioral sciences. 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; intervention 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 pilot core 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.
Roughly half of the pilot projects will be conducted in collaboration with Geisinger.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10461990
- **Project number:** 5P30AG034532-14
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- **Principal Investigator:** JOSEPH J DOYLE
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $324,643
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2009-09-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10461990

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10461990, Pilot Core (5P30AG034532-14). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10461990. Licensed CC0.

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