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.
Venture Philanthropy Transformed Cystic Fibrosis. Can It Deliver for Other Diseases?
CF Foundation’s Landmark Drug Approvals With Vertex Inspired Patient Groups to Act Like Biotech Investors. But Only a Few Groups Have Made Big Bets, LDI Fellow Finds
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
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.
Michael Sielski
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics , Wharton School
- MD Student , Perelman School of Medicine
Karli Breeden, MD
- Clinical Fellow , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Robert Krouse, MD, MS
- Professor, Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Freya Yang
- PhD Student, Nursing , Penn Nursing
Naria Sealy
- PhD Student, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Catherine Auriemma, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Augustine Cassis Obeng Boateng, MPH
- PhD Student, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
- MBE Student, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Andy Murray, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine