Grant Funding
Funding Agency: University of Virginia Cancer Center Farrow Fellowship
Grant Title: A mixed-methods, user-centered design approach to co-create emotionally targeted messages aimed at enhancing colorectal cancer screening uptake
Amount: $25,000
Funding Period: 07/2025 – 06/2026
Role: PI
Publications
Dwibedi E, You W, Ritterband L, Brock D, Reid A, Frederick C, Zoellner J. (2026) A Stepped Care Approach to Promoting Engagement in a Digital Health Intervention: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial Examining Demand, Costs, and Simulation-Based Insights. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17/03/2026:80921 (forthcoming/in press). https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/80921
Ackley, C., Dunn, A., Dwibedi, E., Fernando, L., Joffe, J., Mallatt, J., Dieleman, J. L., & Weaver, M. R. (2026). "The value of health care in the United States: changes in lifetime spending and health-adjusted life-expectancy, 1996 to 2016.", Value in Health. S1098-3015(26)00033-1. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2026.01.008
Coker TR, Lowry SJ, Dwibedi E, et al. (2025) "Cost Analysis of the PARENT Trial of Community Health Workers in Early Childhood Preventive Care: A Secondary Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial", JAMA Network Open. 8(7):e2522732. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.22732
Alsharawy, A., Dwibedi, E., Aimone, J., Ball, S., (2022) "Vaccine Hesitancy and Betrayal Aversion", Annals of Biomedical Engineering 50, 794–804 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-022-02975-4.
Baidya, S., Chakraborty, B., Dwibedi, E., Maji, S., Mallik, I., Sen, A., (2019) “A study on happiness and related factors among Indian college students”, Journal of Quantitative Economics 17 (1), 215-236.
Online Publications
Dwibedi, E., Rebstock, J., Jacobs, R., Wright, J., (2021) Water Management And Industry And Residential Growth In Floyd County, Virginia, Virginia Tech Data Science for the Public Good
Dwibedi, E., Seth, A., Rex, A., Mukora, V., (2021) Analyzing Vegetative Health using Landsat 8 Satellite Imagery, Virginia Tech Data Science for the Public Good
Under review
Dwibedi E, You W, Porter K, Ritterband L, Brock D, Reid A, Zoellner J. (Revise and resubmit) Temporal Dynamics of Habit Strength and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake: Exploratory Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Public Health Nutrition. Submitted March, 2026.
Dwibedi E, Brauns M, Fisher C, Ankem G, King-Mallory R, Frazier J, Cohn W, Zoellner J. (under Review) Improving colorectal cancer screening rate in a rural multi-site Federally Qualified Health Center: A quality improvement journey. Family Medicine and Community Health. Submitted July, 2026.
Day KR, Brock DJ, Dwibedi E, You W, Chow PI, Porter KJ, Ritterband LM, Krukowski RA, Zoellner J. (Revise and resubmit) Leveraging SMS Process Data to Inform the Design of a Future Adaptive Trial. Digital Health. Submitted March, 2026.
Reid A, Dwibedi E, Brock DJP, Helms C, Jones C, Zoellner J. (under Review) Impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage reduction intervention on diet quality: Findings from the iSIPsmarter randomized controlled trial. Eating Behaviors. Submitted August, 2026.
Aimone JA, Ball S, Dwibedi E, Jackson JJ, West JE. Macro-Level Institutions and Micro-Level Economic Behavior: A Meta-Meta Analysis of 1,126 Studies. (under Review). Nature Human Behavior. Submitted July, 2026. (NBER Working Paper)
Work in Progress
Dwibedi E, Brock DJP, Platter H, Cohn W, Daniel K, Zoellner J. Co-Creating emotionally supportive messages to increase colorectal cancer screening: a mixed-methods, used-centered design approach.
Day K, Dwibedi E, You W, Ritterband L, Brock D, Reid A, Zoellner J. Impact of a sugar-sweetened beverage reduction intervention on caffeine consumption and sleep: Exploratory analysis of a randomized controlled trial.
Dwibedi E, Alsharawy A, Aimone J, Ball S. Public health messages encouraging emotion reappraisal reduces vaccine hesitancy and betrayal aversion.
Dwibedi E, Trost S, Ball S. A Nudge Experiment on Academic Outcomes and Flu Vaccination.
Silke F, Klusty J, Hsu J, Memetova A, Weaver M, Earl L, Dwibedi E. League Tables Based on Cost-Effectiveness Estimates of 132 Interventions in 204 Countries: A Meta-Regression Approach.