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 All of our work is available on our website, regardless of outcome, in line with research best practices. Our first priority is to make project results accessible and actionable for agency partners. More information about publications resulting from OES collaborations can be found on our <a class="usa-link usa-link--external" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ti96pvAAAAAJ&hl=en">Google Scholar page</a>.
 
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+Kappes, H. B., Toma, M., Balu, R., Burnett, R., Chen, N., Johnson, R., Leight, J., Omer, S. B., Safran, E., Steffel, M., Trump, K.-S., Yokum, D., & Debroy, P. (2023). Using communication to boost vaccination: Lessons for COVID-19 from evaluations of eight large-scale programs to promote routine vaccinations. <i>Behavioral Science & Policy,</i> 9(1), 11-24. Available at <a class="usa-link usa-link--external" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23794607231192690"> https://doi.org/10.1177/23794607231192690.</a>
+- The COVID-19 pandemic has added new urgency to the question of how best to motivate people to get needed vaccines. In this article, we present lessons gleaned from government evaluations of eight large randomized controlled trials of interventions that used direct communications to increase the uptake of routine vaccines. These evaluations, conducted by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES) before the start of the pandemic, had a median sample size of 55,000. Participating organizations deployed a variety of behaviorally informed direct communications and used administrative data to measure whether people who received the communications got vaccinated or took steps toward vaccination. The results of six of the eight evaluations were not statistically significant, and a meta-analysis suggests that changes in vaccination rates ranged from -0.004 to 0.394 percentage points. The remaining two evaluations yielded increases in vaccination rates that were statistically significant, albeit modest: 0.59 and 0.16 percentage points. Agencies looking for cost-effective ways to use communications to boost vaccine uptake in the field—whether for COVID-19 or for other diseases-may want to evaluate program effectiveness early on so messages and methods may be adjusted as needed, and they should expect effects to be smaller than those seen in academic studies.
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 Toma, Mattie and Burnett, Russell and Debroy, Pompa and Dimant, Eugen and Liu, Jean and Safran, Elana and Saya, Uzaib and Schultz, Bill, Promoting Responsible Disposal of Opioids: A Randomized Evaluation of Behaviorally Informed Messaging Combined with a Financial Incentive (July 6, 2023). Available at <a class="usa-link usa-link--external" href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4502634">http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4502634.</a>
 - The opioid epidemic is a major public health problem that affects millions of people around the world. This paper addresses one challenge identified on the demand side of the epidemic: A large proportion of patients prescribed opioids lose track of their unused pills or save them for future use. Here, we report the results of a randomized controlled trial investigating an intervention aimed at encouraging patients to return unused opioid pills to the dispensing pharmacy.