U.S. Smokers Face a Maze of Conflicting Nicotine Risk Messages
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Our Mission
We connect researchers from across the University of Pennsylvania with a common mission: to improve health and health care by catalyzing collaborative, multidisciplinary research that influences policy and practice.
Featured Research Updates
LDI generates critical evidence to improve U.S. health care delivery, patient care, and health policy.
Addiction Consults Improve Substance Use Care Without More Readmissions or Longer Stays
LDI Fellows’ Study Backs Hospital Addiction Care Model, Although Financial Gains Remain Unproven
Heat-Related Deaths May Be Far Higher Than Reported
Chart of the Day: U.S. Misses Heat Deaths That Occur Outside Work, LDI Fellows Say
Penn’s Mark Pauly Calls on States to Revive Hospital Competition to Control Costs
New Study Finds Many Local Markets Could Support More Competing Hospitals
Reaching Across the Aisle to Lower Health Care Costs
Two Health Policy Experts Find Bipartisan Consensus in Site Neutral Payments, Controlling Medicare Costs
Military Surgeons Saw More Readmissions After Returning From Deployment
Leaves May Decay Doctors’ Skills, so Hospitals Need a Plan for Reentry, LDI Expert Says
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Inaugural Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program Symposium
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Research Seminar with David Slusky, PhD
From Access to Wellness: Early Life Exposure to Abortion Legalization and the Next Generation’s Health
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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.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Salazar, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Neonatology , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Renée Betancourt, MD
- Associate Professor, Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
C. Ross Hatton, PhD, MPA
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Alonso Carrasco-Labra, DDS, PhD
- Professor, Preventive and Restorative Sciences and Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) , Penn Dental Medicine
Frances Barg, PhD
- Professor Emeritus, Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor Emeritus, Anthropology , School of Arts and Sciences
David Grande, MD, MPA
- Interim Executive Director , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
- Director of Policy , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Neil Perry Sheth, MD
- Associate Professor, Orthopedic Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Roopali Kulkarni, DMD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Oral Medicine , Penn Dental 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.
Fast Facts
$179M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
12,100+
Journal Articles Published (2021–2025)
$622K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI
Our Impact
Penn LDI’s success stems from creating multidisciplinary solutions to our nation’s most pressing health care problems. Explore 20 stories about the transformative power of our institute.
