Key Lessons for Ethical and Affordable Access to GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic and Wegovy
How Other Nations’ Policies Can Guide Fair Access to Life-Saving Obesity and Diabetes Drugs Amid High Prices
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.
Why Deaths Are Likely to Rise from Hotter Weather Due to Climate Change
LDI Study Highlights Rising Heat’s Impact on Mortality
$6.5 Million CDC Grant Funds Penn Prevention Research Center for Another Five Years
Led by Three LDI Senior Fellows, Center Will Increase Focus on Cancer
Caring for the Family Caregivers Made Ill by Their Work
Randomized Controlled Trial Tests an Online Health Coaching Intervention
Five Things to Know about AI and Health Care
Radiology Is Hot, Diagnosis Is Still in The Future
AI Poses Great Potential and Peril for Healthcare
At an Oct. 10 Conference, Experts from LDI and the Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab Will Discuss the Thorniest Questions About AI
Upcoming Events
Virtual Event
Boosting Health Through Economic Policy: Increasing Income and Wealth
A Conversation with Madeline Brown, MPA, Amy Beth Castro, PhD, William Elliott III, PhD, MSW, and Angela Rachidi, PhD, MPA, moderated by Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD
Virtual Event
LDI Fellows Workshop: From Profile to Conversation – Leveraging LinkedIn for Influence and Engagement
Open only to LDI Fellows
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.
MaryAnne (Marty) Peifer, MD, MSIS
- Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD
- Director, Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Mark V. Pauly President’s Distinguished Professor, Perelman School of Medicine
Rebecca (Arden) Harris, MD, MSc
- Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Summer Kaplan, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine
John Kimberly, PhD
- Henry Bower Professor Emeritus, Health Care Management, Wharton School
Aaron Schwartz, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
William Patrick, MD
- Resident, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
- Student, Master of Science in Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Seyoun Kim MHS
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
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