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Hugo Harper
Hugo is the Mission Director for Nesta's A Healthy Life mission and leads BIT's work on Health in the UK. He has been with the team for the last 9 years running projects with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, Public Health England and Cabinet Office. He…
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Dr Alex Gyani
Alex is the Director of the Behavioural Insights Team's Australian office. He has been based in Sydney since 2014. Previously Alex oversaw the team’s research and evaluation work across Singapore, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and ran the office in Aotearoa New Zealand from 2018-2021. Since joining the team in…
- Blog
- 12th Sep 2014
Victoria, Australia, steps up to the Obesity challenge
(Update from David Halpern) A quick report from Victoria Australia, where we are working with VicHealth, before heading back to London tomorrow. The Australians have often led the world on public health measures, so it’s pretty cool to be working with them for the next 2 years, with a special…
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Dr Hannah Behrendt
Hannah leads the Health and Wellbeing Team at BIT. She has been with BIT for the last 9 years, working with a wide range of partners in the UK and across the world to deliver projects applying behavioural insights to improve health and wellbeing. Hannah combines in-depth experience of policy…
- Blog
- 8th Dec 2014
World Bank publishes landmark report on Mind, Society and behaviour
The 2015 World Development Report was launched last week by the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, and our own CEO, Dr David Halpern (see the video of the launch here). David sent back this blog from Washington: The subject of the 2015 World Development Report is behavioural…
- Blog
- 10th Dec 2014
Redesigning hospital prescription charts to reduce prescribing errors
Research supported by the Behavioural Insights Team has demonstrated how prescribing behaviour can be significantly improved by making simple changes to prescription charts used in NHS hospitals. Below is a guest blog, written by Dom King, a good friend of BIT, co-author of MINDSPACE and the lead researcher on this…
- Blog
- 23rd Dec 2014
Is Christmas ever good for your health?
Most people are not expecting to get healthier over the festive period, with Christmas parties, Christmas lunch and New Years’ parties serving to prepare us for an inevitable January of diets and new gym memberships. New research, however, suggests that Christmas may be better for your physical health than you…
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Dr Karen Tindall
Karen is a Principal Advisor based in our Sydney office, focusing on domestic violence, community resilience, health, and charitable giving. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University, in the field of public sector crisis management. Karen is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for…
- Blog
- 4th Aug 2015
Reducing errors in medical decision-making
“Sarah, can you hear me?” The patient lies on the trolley, silent and grey. The doctor bends over her with growing concern. Now he feels no pulse, no breathing – and a once innocuous situation has slipped into crisis. Professional instinct takes over: with a pull of a lever, the…
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- 1st Sep 2015
Applying Behavioral Economics in a Health Policy Context
The goal of this chapter is to describe how behavioural economics has been applied to health care sector, beginning with the origins of the Behavioural Insights Team in the United Kingdom, and concluding with the broad public health policy context in both the United Kingdom and across much of the…