Alison Buttenheim
This week on AmplifyNursing we welcome the return of Dr. Alison Buttenheim. A public health researcher and behavioral epidemiologist, Dr. Buttenheim is an associate professor of nursing at UPenn School of Nursing and assistant professor of health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine. Today, we talk to Dr Buttenheim about the current and evolving state of the coronavirus pandemic in the US and across the globe. She shares her insight into vaccine rollout, her coronavirus education project, Dear Pandemic, and her thoughts on the new normal.
Selected Publications
Milkman KL, Gandhi L, Ellis SF, Graci HN, Gromet DM, Mobarak RS, Buttenheim AM, Duckworth AL, Pope D, Stanford A, Thaler R. A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries. Nature Human Behaviour. 2022 Sep 1:1-0
Thirumurthy H, Milkman KL, Volpp KG, Buttenheim AM, Pope DG. Association between statewide financial incentive programs and COVID-19 vaccination rates. PloS one. 2022 Mar 30;17(3):e0263425.
Buttenheim A, Milkman KL, Duckworth AL, Gromet DM, Patel M, Chapman G. Effects of Ownership Text Message Wording and Reminders on Receipt of an Influenza Vaccination: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Jama Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e2143388-.
Leininger LJ, Albrecht SS, Buttenheim A, Dowd JB, Ritter AZ, Simanek AM, Valentino MJ, Jones M. Fight Like a Nerdy Girl: The Dear Pandemic Playbook for Combating Health Misinformation. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2022 Mar;36(3):563-7.
Brewer NT, Buttenheim AM, Clinton CV, Mello MM, Benjamin RM, Callaghan T, Caplan A, Carpiano RM, DiResta R, Elharake JA, Flowers LC. Incentives for COVID-19 vaccination. The Lancet Regional Health–Americas. 2022 Apr 1;8.
Albrecht SS, Aronowitz SV, Buttenheim AM, Coles S, Dowd JB, Hale L, Kumar A, Leininger L, Ritter AZ, Simanek AM, Whelan CB. Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic, a Social Media–Based Science Communication Project Targeting the COVID-19 Infodemic. Public Health Reports. 2022 Mar 3: 00333549221076544.
Golos AM, Hopkins DJ, Bhanot SP, Buttenheim AM. Partisanship, Messaging, and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Evidence From Survey Experiments. Am J Health Promot. 2022 Mar 1: 08901171211049241.
Buttenheim AM, Thirumurthy H. Pay-for-performance incentives for health worker vaccination: looking under the hood. BMJ Qual Saf. 11 February 2022. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2021-014269.
Buttenheim AM, Schmucker L, Marcus N, Phatsoane M, Msolomba V, Rhagnath N, Majam M, Venter F, Thirumurthy H. Planning and commitment prompts to encourage reporting of HIV self-test results: A cluster randomized pragmatic trial in Tshwane District, South Africa. PLOS Global Public Health. 2022 Oct 24;2(10):e0001196.
Chetty-Makkan CM, Thirumurthy H, Bair EF, Bokolo S, Day C, Wapenaar K, Werner J, Long L, Maughan-Brown B, Miot J, Pascoe SJ, Buttenheim AM. Quasi-experimental evaluation of a financial incentive for first-dose COVID-19 vaccination among adults aged≥ 60 years in South Africa. BMJ Global Health. 2022 Dec 1;7(12):e009625.