Behavioral Science Tips for Physical Distancing

Health Policy faculty Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD, and Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, have worked with ideas42, the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, and Indlela Behavioural Insights for Better Health, to develop a tipsheet with behavioral science tips for physical distancing.

This one-pager offers concrete tips for how local and national governments and other institutions can use behavioral design to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities in low and middle-income countries around the world while facilitating social cohesion and the provision of essential services.