Health Care Access and Coverage
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.
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 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.
Opioid Epidemic
Finding sustainable, humane, and effective solutions to the opioid epidemic.
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.
Sindhu Srinivas Named Executive Director of HUP-Cedar Ave
A Public Health Campus Changing the Way Health Care is Delivered in Underserved Communities
Lauren Eberly to Receive 2025 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award
Cited for Her Heart Failure Research Among Indigenous Populations
We Need to Understand Dobbs’ Impacts on Abortions – But Can Existing Data Help?
Challenges and Opportunities to Using Insurance Data to Analyze Abortion Care
Chart of the Day: More U.S. Patients Use Acupuncture for Low Back Pain, But it Remains Rare
Penn LDI Study Examines Insurance Claims to Learn More about Patients Who Get Acupuncture
Congress Extends More Telehealth Care Just Before the 2024 Holidays
But Many Services Were Only Extended Until March 2025
Pilot Project Begun in LDI’s CICADA Program is Published by JAMA Network
LDI Senior Fellow and Former CICADA Scholar Yehoda Martei Investigated Guideline-Concordant Cancer Care in Older Adults with Cancer
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.
Robert Field, PhD, JD
- Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University
- Professor, Kline School of Law, Drexel University
Elizabeth Sonnenberg, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Alexis Boulter, MD
- Clinical Fellow, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Instructor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH
- George A. Weiss University Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Penn Nursing
Eva Catenaccio, MD
- Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Tamara J. Cadet, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice
- Associate Professor, Penn Dental Medicine