Nursing Home Incentive Program Falls Flat, New Work Explains Potential Reasons
A Major Federal Value-Based Purchasing Program Was Designed to Cut Hospital Readmissions. LDI Fellows Say the Incentives Are Too Small to Drive Real Change
Our Mission
We connect researchers from across the University of Pennsylvania with a common mission: to improve health and health care by catalyzing collaborative, multidisciplinary research that influences policy and practice.
Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
New APHA Book Warns Social Systems Are Driving Deepening Health Inequities
Penn LDI’s Antonia Villarruel and 10 Other Authors Map Social Determinants Across Multiple Racial and Ethnic Groups
Analysis of the Rural Health Transformation Program
Memo: Response to Request for Analysis
Reforming Long-Term Care Policy
Lessons from the Past, Imperatives for the Future
How to Make Health Care Affordable: What Democrats Should Do Next
An LDI Expert Offers Five Cost Control Measures As Congress Continues Its Affordability Debate
Inside ICE Detention: Many Facilities Operated Without Qualified Health Staff
A New Study of a Sample of Facilities Found Half Without Any Behavioral Health Staff
Upcoming Events
Virtual Event
Financing Long-Term Care: Public vs. Private Solutions
A Conversation with Richard G. Frank, PhD, Narda Ipakchi, MBA, and R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
Our Experts
Our 500+ Fellows are national experts and thought leaders who bridge all of Penn’s schools, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Xinyi Wang, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow , Annenberg School for Communication
Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Rachel French, PhD, RN
- Assistant Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
Amy Hillier, PhD, MSW
- Associate Professor, Social Work , School of Social Policy & Practice
Vimbai Dihwa, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Shivan Mehta, MD, MSHP
- Associate Professor, Medicine and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Director, Population Health Lab , Perelman School of Medicine
Katherine Milkman, PhD
- James G. Dinan Professor , Wharton School
- Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions , Wharton School
Connie Ulrich, PhD, RN
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
What We Do
As Penn’s hub for health care delivery, health policy, and population health, we connect and amplify over 500 Fellows across the University, and train the next generation of researchers.
Fast Facts
$160M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
11,300+
Journal Articles Published (2020–2024)
$400K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI