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Sara is a Senior Advisor in the International Programmes team at BIT, based in London. Sara leads projects on immunisation, breastfeeding, nutrition, and mental health across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. As part of BIT’s External Training team, Sara helps manage the training portfolio and delivers sessions on…
Our latest research on smoking and vaping highlights the need for public health interventions to address misconceptions and respond to people's reasons for quitting.
We designed and tested a WhatsApp chatbot to understand whether two-way interactive messaging incorporating behaviourally informed functionalities could perform better than one-way message reminders. We ran a large-scale preregistered randomized controlled trial with 249,705 participants in Argentina, measuring vaccinations using Ministry of Health records.
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LONDON, 18 October 2024 - A team of international researchers co-led by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and Argentina’s Behavioural Insights and Public Policy Unit, has found that a behaviourally-informed chatbot more than tripled COVID-19 vaccine uptake compared to a control group.
Diseñamos y probamos un chatbot de WhatsApp para entender si la comunicación interactiva bidireccional, que incorpora funcionalidades informadas por el comportamiento, podría funcionar mejor que los recordatorios de mensajes unidireccionales. Llevamos a cabo un ensayo controlado aleatorizado y preinscrito a gran escala con 249.705 participantes en Argentina, midiendo las vacunaciones…
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Not everyone takes advantage of screening when they’re eligible, and groups with language and cultural barriers get screened even less.
Las ciencias del comportamiento ofrecen herramientas esenciales para influir en las prácticas y decisiones de las comunidades, promoviendo así un enfoque proactivo para reducir la prevalencia de las enfermedades transmitidas por el mosquito.
To the disappointment of many anti-smoking campaigners, the Tobacco and Vapes Bill was shelved last week as the UK parliament was suspended ahead of the election in July. The headline measure would have banned the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 1 January 2009, but the bill would have…
Apakah Anda tahu berapa banyak varian hasil mutasi virus SARS-CoV-2 yang telah muncul sejak awal pandemi? Anda mungkin sudah berhenti mengikuti beritanya karena pandemi sudah tidak lagi menjadi perhatian utama kita. Padahal, varian virus SARS-CoV-2 menjadi hal yang dibicarakan banyak orang ketika WHO mengeluarkan izin penggunaan darurat vaksin COVID-19 pertama…
Vaccine access and hesitancy are as much behavioural challenges as they are policy challenges in Indonesia, and globally, which threaten to prolong the impact of the pandemic.
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