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Inside Penn Medicine’s Health Care Transformation Initiatives
Chief Transformation Officer Raina Merchant Provides Overview and Insights at LDI Annual Leighton Memorial Lecture
A Novel Study Quantifies Who is Missing from Cardiovascular Clinical Research
LDI Researchers Analyzed Ethnicity, Race, and Sex‐Specific Population Participation in Clinical Trials
Federal Medicaid Spending Cuts: The Wrong Ways and the Right Ways
As Congress Considers Cuts to Medicaid Spending, Policymakers Should Better Account for States’ Ability to Pay
Research Brief: Simple Visual Aids Raise Awareness and Knowledge About HIV Treatment
Bead-Filled Bottles May Change Attitudes and Help Prevent HIV Transmission, LDI Fellows Show in Philadelphia Studies
What’s the Best Way to Design a Black Barbershop Health Intervention?
Penn LDI Researcher Derek Griffith’s Project Unpacks the Process
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Understanding the Health and Fiscal Impacts of Medicaid Policy Proposals
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Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread
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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.
Andy Tan, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Communication, Annenberg School for Communication
Mayank Keoliya
- PhD Student, Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Rebecca Hamm, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine
Pinar Yildirim, PhD
- Associate Professor, Marketing, Wharton School
- Associate Professor, Economics, School of Arts and Sciences
Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Science, Penn Nursing
Christopher McLaughlin, MD, MBA
- Clinical Fellow, Perelman School of Medicine
Amol Navathe, MD, PhD
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Healthcare Management, 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.
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$160M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
11,300+
Journal Articles Published (2020–2024)
$400K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI