AI in Health Care
Harnessing artificial intelligence to improve health care delivery and outcomes.
Our Work
We aim to achieve effective and efficient health care for all people by supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research, and education.
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Focus Areas
Health Care Access and Coverage
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.
Health Care Payment and Financing
Building a better health care system by redesigning payment and financing.
Health Equity
Improving health and reducing health disparities through a more equitable health care system.
Improving Care for Older Adults
Improving the health, well-being, independence, and care of older adults.
Substance Use Disorder
Finding sustainable, humane, and effective strategies to address substance use disorder.
Population Health
Focusing on how societal events, structural forces, and policies influence the health of populations.
Featured Research Updates
We support and amplify scholarship that shapes and expands the knowledge required to improve population health, health care delivery, and health policy.
Three Studies by LDI Senior Fellows Win Clinical Research Forum Awards
Chen and Roberts in Top 10, Groeneveld a Top 10 Finalist
Unpacking the Federal Drug Price Reduction Struggle
How Political Rhetoric and Behind-the-Scenes Deal-Making Obscure Who Really Pays – or How Much
Patients Face New Barriers for GLP-1 Drugs Like Wegovy and Ozempic
Even With Lower Prices, Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Insurers Tighten Coverage for Drugs Like Mounjaro and Zepbound Using Prior Authorization and Other Tools
America’s Kids Can’t Outrun a Broken Food System
Guidelines Matter, but Lasting Health Requires Investment in Better Food, More Activity, and More Targeted Tools From Medicaid and SNAP
Dancing Students Toward Health Care Career Opportunities
A Wharton–Netter Center Collaboration Uses Experiential Learning to Build a Health Care Workforce Pipeline
Heart Failure Patients May Get Sicker When the Rent Is Too High
Cheaper Housing Could be a Way to Lower Hospitalizations Among Medicaid Patients with Heart Failure
Working Groups
Penn LDI’s working groups convene researchers with common interests to build collaborations and catalyze new activities.
Our Experts
Over 500 LDI Fellows from across the University of Pennsylvania are part of the Penn LDI community.
Victor Roy, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
Sarah Revak, MD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program , Perelman School of Medicine
Nadim Mahmud, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Emily F. Gregory, MD, MHS
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
Gary Bass, MD, MSc
- Assistant Professor, Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Chén Kenyon, MD, MSHP
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Hospitalist, General Pediatrics and Complex Care , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Shazia Mehmood Siddique, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Gastroenterology , Perelman School of Medicine
Kaustav Shah, MD
- Internist , Perelman School of Medicine
- Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program , Perelman School of Medicine