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.
Photo & Text Report: Penn LDI at the 2025 AcademyHealth Research Meeting
A Gathering of a Health Services Research Community Currently Under Siege
LDI at 2025 AcademyHealth Poster Displays
1,000+ Detail the Latest Health Services Research Findings and Insights
Penn SUMR Program Celebrates 25 Years and a National Award
Wharton and LDI’s Joanne Levy Takes the Stage at AcademyHealth
Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program Fails to Lower Hospital Readmissions
New Incentive Structures and Metrics May Improve Program Performance
For-Profit Hospitals Invest Less in Nursing Services
As States Consider Reforms, Study Finds Sharp Disparities in Staffing and Safety Between For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals
Black Maternity Patients More Likely to Experience Clinical Communications Failures
New Penn LDI Study Is Based on Hospital Incident Reports Rather Than Electronic Health Records
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.
Shekinah Fashaw-Walters, PhD, MSPH
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Carolyn H. Asbury, ScMPH, PhD
- Former Senior Consultant, The Dana Foundation
Jerry Rosenbloom, PhD
- Frederick H. Ecker Professor Emeritus, Insurance and Risk Management , Wharton School
- Academic Director, Certified Employee Benefit Specialist Program , Wharton School
Heather Burris, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Neonatology , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Xiaoxuan (Priscilla) Liu, RN
- PhD Student , Penn Nursing
Antonia Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Margaret Bond Simon Dean , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
Neel Chokshi, MD, MBA
- Associate Professor, Medicine and Cardiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Eva Catenaccio, MD
- Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine