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.
How Republicans Could Fashion a Practical Option to Obamacare
An LDI Expert Offers Three Recommendations That Address Core Criticisms of the ACA’s Model
Applying for SNAP Just Got Harder—But New Evidence Shows Making It Easier May Cut Hunger
Administrative Hurdles, Not Just Income Rules, Shape Who Gets Food Assistance, LDI Fellows Show—Underscoring Policy’s Power to Affect Food Insecurity
Insurers’ Utilization Management Tools Vary Widely on Anti-Nausea Drugs for Cancer
Chart of the Day: LDI Researchers Report Major Coverage Differences Across ACA and Medicaid Plans, Affecting Access to Drugs That Treat Chemo-Related Nausea
Toward a More Humane and Economically Viable Long-Term Care System
A Penn LDI Virtual Panel Looks Ahead at New Possibilities
Why You May Have Fewer Health Insurance Choices Than Your Neighbor
Insurers Avoid Counties With Small Populations and Poor Health but a New LDI Study Finds Limited Evidence of Anticompetitive Behavior
Do Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Do More Good Than Harm?
The Evidence Suggests a Ban on Ads May Not Be A Well-Targeted Solution
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.
Whitley Aamodt, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Neurology , Perelman School of Medicine
Li Shen, PhD
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Joseph Teel, MD
- Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
Caoimhe Duffy, MD, MSc
- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine
Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP
- Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
Jeffrey Berns, MD
- Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Eric Bressman, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hospital Medicine) , Perelman School of Medicine
Kent Smetters, PhD
- Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy , Wharton School
- Professor, Applied Math and Computational Science , School of Arts and Sciences