Post-Acute Care Shifts Away from Nursing Homes
Will Pandemic-Related Trends Continue?
New Funding Opportunities
Penn LDI is pleased to announce two funding opportunities: The 2021 Small Grants Program and a new funding opportunity in partnership with the inaugural LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory.
Upcoming Event
Mental Health Care in Flux: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Care
Friday, October 29, 2021 | 12:00–2:15 p.m. ET
Virtual Conference co-hosted with the Penn Center for Mental Health
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.
$105 Million
In Research Grants Given Annually to Senior Fellows
95,000
Senior Fellow Journal Citations in 2016–20
7,030
Articles Published by Senior Fellows in 2020
Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
Learning Your Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease
Studies Describe Reactions and Concerns
More Penn Scientists Make Op-Eds a Health Policy Advocacy Tool
Penn LDI Health Services Researchers Publish 72 Major Commentaries in Nine Months
Ethnic and Racial Diversity in Surgical Faculty Associated with Medical Student Diversity
Underrepresentation Remains a Challenge
Six Lessons Learned from the Global COVID-19 Vaccine Development Response
Can Inform Future Pandemics
Racial Disparities in Avoidable Hospitalizations for Medicare Beneficiaries
Gap Widens in Medicare Advantage
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.
Robert Field, PhD, JD, MPH
- Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University
- Professor, Kline School of Law, Drexel University
Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Irit Rasooly, MD, MSCE
- Instructor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
M. Elle Saine, MD, PhD, MA
- Resident, HUP Internal Medicine Residency Program, Physician Scientist Pathway, Perelman School of Medicine
Aron D. Wahrman, MD, MBA, MHCDS, FACS
- Associate Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Catherine Auriemma, MD
- Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Sarah Schrauben, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Division of Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension, and Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine
Upcoming Events
LDI Research Seminar with Jevay Grooms, PhD
Can Information Reduce Physician Bias?
Virtual Event
Health Care at Home: A New Frontier
Virtual Conversation with Bruce Allen Leff, MD, Craig Samitt, MD, Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, and Reed Tuckson, MD, FACP, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
LDI Research Seminar with Laura Wherry, PhD
Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health