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Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
Why Cardiologists May Hesitate to Give Essential Care to Sicker Patients
Black, Older, Female, and Higher-Risk Patients are Most Affected
Shutting Down Federal Support for LGBTQ+ Health Care and Research
Penn Medicine Health Equity Week Panel Eyes an Extraordinary Unraveling
The Rich Hospitals Got Richer
Wealthy Hospitals Doubled Their Assets Over Two Decades While Financially Insecure Facilities Saw Little Growth
Assessing the Likely Impact of Proposed Medicaid Cuts
A Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Analyzes What Program Elements Congress Might Kill
Catherine Ishitani Wins 2025 ASHEcon Student Paper Award
LDI Associate Fellow’s Study Focused on Generic Pharmaceutical Quality Failures
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Health Impacts After Dobbs: What We Know and What Lies Ahead
A Conversation with Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP, Ari Friedman, MD, PhD, and Dorothy E. Roberts, JD, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
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Emerging Scholars Exchange Program: Michelle Nakphong, PhD
The Legacies of Structural Racism and its Impacts on Mental Health Among Low-Income Black Young Adults: Findings From the Black Economic Equity Movement (BEEM)
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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.
Eva Catenaccio, MD
- Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Jeffrey Berns, MD
- Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Marilyn Sommers, PhD, RN
- Professor Emerita, Penn Nursing
Lea Ann Matura, PhD, RN
- Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Penn Nursing
Peter Cronholm, MD, MSCE
- Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Eleanor Turi, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program, Perelman School of Medicine
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Mental Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Eugenia South, MD, MSHP
- Ralph Muller Presidential Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
- Faculty Director, Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice, 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.
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$160M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
11,300+
Journal Articles Published (2020–2024)
$400K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI