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.
Hanming Fang Wins Best Article Award from Japanese Economic Review
Penn LDI Senior Fellow Paper Focused on the Mental Health of Older Chinese
A Small Gift Card Grew Diverse Enrollment for Trials in Children
Incentives Worked Better than Culturally Tailored Videos, LDI Fellows Found
The Missing Link to Regulate AI Systems in Health
We Need a System That Watches AI Care at the Bedside, Two LDI Fellows Say
Chart of the Day: Here are the Most Lucrative Heart Procedures for Hospitals
The Big Moneymaker is a Common Cardiac Surgery, Study by LDI Fellows Finds
A Special Medicaid Program
To Speed Eligibility Still Leaves Delays in Care
Some Who Get Medicaid When Injured Have Longer Hospital Stays and Higher Costs, LDI Fellow’s Study Finds
Quantifying Firearm-Related Hospitalizations: A Growing U.S. Public Health Crisis
Exploring Disparities, Hospitalization Outcomes, and Policy Solutions with LDI Fellow Nadir Yehya
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.
Laurin Bixby
- PhD Student, Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences
- Master’s Student, Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School
Nandita Mitra, PhD
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School
Shivan Mehta, MD, MSHP
- Associate Professor, Medicine and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
- Director, Population Health Lab, Perelman School of Medicine
Elizabeth Levy, MD
- Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Lauren VonHoltz, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Eda Algur
- MD Student, Perelman School of Medicine
- PhD Student, Healthcare Management and Economics, Wharton School
Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN
- Professor, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
- Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Katherine Milkman, PhD
- James G. Dinan Professor, Wharton School
- Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton School