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March 6, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Lori Melichar spoke with Drs. Kevin Volpp and David Asch, co-directors of the Foundation’s Behavioral Economics Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, to talk about low-value health care.
March 4, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Lori Melichar Gadkari, PhD, MA, a labor economist and senior program officer in the Foundation’s Research and Evaluation team shares information on Pioneer's newest CFP in the field of behavioral economics.
April 4, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
The majority of my work in the Department of Research and Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been predicated on the long-held assumption that if you show people convincingly that doing one thing will create the outcome they desire, ...
November 8, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
In October, RWJF’s Pioneer portfolio laid down a challenge. Recognizing that good health behaviors often require behavior change, but that making those changes is usually easier said than done, we asked the pioneering world of behavioral economics t ...
October 13, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
To improve people’s health, we ask them to change their behavior. Quit Smoking. Eat right. Lose Weight. Take a walk. Get your blood pressure checked. See a doctor. But, as many have noted, making a commitment to do the “right” thing is often easier ...
March 25, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
My framework and perspective on measuring “pioneer-ness” has been radically altered by what I have seen and heard at TED. What began as a traditional academic exercise of collecting data to examine a hypothesis and testing fit of predictions has ev ...
March 1, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
I'm thrilled to attend TED this week. In addition to being open to new ideas that might morph into fundable projects for RWJF, I’ll be expanding and refining my thoughts about measuring “pioneer-ness.” This means trying to distill a core definition ...
May 24, 2010 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Last week, I went to Key Largo, Florida to attend the 8th Triennial Invitational Choice Symposium, hosted by the University of Miami and the University of Technology, Sydney. Pioneer has had an ongoing interest in behavioral economics – also called ...
December 23, 2009 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Dr. David Eddy, founder of Archimedes, recently visited the Foundation to present ARCHeS, a Web-based delivery platform that enables policy-makers and health leaders to use the Archimedes model to run their own virtual trials. Dr. Eddy demonstrated ...
May 23, 2008 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Nicholas Christakis’ new study on social networks and smoking cessation was published in yesterday’s New England Journal of Medicine. Using data from the Framingham Heart Study, Christakis and his colleagues reconstructed the social networks of more ...