What Happens to Access and Services When Safety-Net Hospitals Are Sold?
How Health System Consolidation Affects Vital Community Services for Vulnerable Populations
Our Mission
Penn LDI is dedicated to improving 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.
Building A Longitudinal Community Supports Model
Insights from Leaders of the Camden Coalition and NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health
Lack of Data Hinders Research on Disparities For People With Disabilities
Information on Patients With Disabilities Is Not Systematically Collected in the U.S. Health System
How Repealing Part of a 1938 Law Could Affect Jobs and the Future Health of People with Disabilities
LDI Fellows’ Study Uses State Examples of Raising Wages to Show Effects on Labor Force Participation
1 in 8 Shot or Killed Before Age 25: The Grim Reality Facing Philadelphia’s Adolescent Black Males
A Call for Urgent Action to Reduce the Gun Violence Epidemic
New Health Care Technology: Is It Better to Build or Buy?
Five Strategic Recommendations from a Leading Health System
Upcoming Events
In-Person Event
Fireside Chat with Mark Cuban
Drug Pricing Failures in America: A Conversation with Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD
Open to Penn Affiliates
Virtual Event
Integrating Care for Dually Eligible Beneficiaries
A Conversation with Aisha Adkins, MPA, CNP, Toyin Ajayi, MD, MPhil, Matthew Behrens, MPA, and Melanie Bella, MBA, 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.
Dolores Albarracín, PhD
- Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Robert Field, PhD, JD
- Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University
- Professor, Kline School of Law, Drexel University
Joseph Kern, MD
- Clinical Fellow, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Richard Patti
- PhD Student, Sociology and Demography, School of Arts and Sciences
- MA Student, Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School
Jerry Johnson, MD
- Professor Emeritus, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Vivek Ashok, MD
- Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program/MSHP, Perelman School of Medicine
Eda Algur
- MD Student, Perelman School of Medicine
- PhD Student, Healthcare Management and Economics, Wharton School
Daniel Polsky, PhD, MPP
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
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
$150M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
9,500+
Journal Articles Published (2019–2023)
$1M+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI