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Unlock Your On-Camera Potential: A Guide to Confident Interviews
Open to LDI Fellows
Our Mission
To improve health and health care by catalyzing collaborative, multidisciplinary research that influences policy and practice.
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.
Upcoming Events
Virtual Event
Do No Harm: Balancing Innovation and Regulation in Health Care AI
A Conversation with I. Glenn Cohen, JD, Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA, Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, moderated by Ravi B. Parikh, MD, MPP
Fast Facts
$142 Million
In Research Grants Given Annually to Senior Fellows
141,957
Senior Fellow Journal Citations in 2018–2022
9,721
Articles Published by Senior Fellows in 2022
Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
Nonprofit Hospitals Are Hounding Poor People for Money and Failing to Serve Patients’ Interests, News Reports Show
Here’s How to Get Them to Refocus on Their Communities Instead of Profits
The Safety-Net Funding That Isn’t Getting to Safety-Net Patients
Penn LDI’s Paula Chatterjee on the Flaws of the Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Program
Clearing the Air: Identifying and Addressing Lung Cancer Disparities in Philadelphia
A Rare Collaboration Among Health Systems Raises Hopes of More Screening and Better Care
Will Over-the-Counter Access Increase Availability of an Overdose-Reverser and an Oral Contraceptive?
Probably Not: If the Past Is Any Guide, Cost and Access Will Likely Stand in the Way
Americans May Support Medicaid Work Requirements But Not Efforts to Exclude People for Noncompliance
Survey Shows Surprising Agreement Among Groups Regarding Health Care Coverage Policies
Fentanyl Remains the Big Driver of Overdoses so Stay Focused on Naloxone as an Antidote
LDI’s Jeanmarie Perrone Names Biggest Takeaways from NIDA’s Conference on Opioid Care
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.
Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MSCE
- Professor, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Farouk Dako, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine
Angela Chen, MA
- MD Student, Perelman School of Medicine
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
Rachel Kohn, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Mark Pauly, PhD
- Bendheim Professor Emeritus, Health Care Management, Wharton School
- Professor, Economics, School of Arts and Sciences
Eliza Kinsey, PhD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
Norma Coe, PhD
- Co-Director, Health Economics Data Analyst Pool (HEDAP), Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Patricia Sullivan, PhD
- Chief Quality Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System