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.
Your Emergency Surgery May Rely on Which Surgeon Is On Call
Clinical Reasoning May Lead Two Surgeons to Prescribe Different Treatments to Similar Patients
Paying for Healthy Choices
Evidence From More Than 600 Studies Reveals When Financial Incentives Move the Needle—And When They Don’t
Experts Warn Addiction Policy is Weak Despite Falling Overdose Deaths
Penn LDI Panel Urges Family-Focused Strategy and Stronger Health System Response
Virtual Nursing Gets Mixed Marks As Fix for Hospital Staffing Crisis
Remote Nurses Improved Quality Slightly but Can’t Replace Nurses at the Bedside, a New Study Finds
The Long-Term Care Experiment Everyone is Watching
Washington State’s First-in-the-Nation Insurance Plan Begins Payouts in Mid-2026, and Researchers Will Weigh its Effect on Care, Costs, and the Long-Term Care Markets
Loss of Vital Monitoring System Threatens Nation’s Health
Without Pressure From Congress, NHANES — Which Helped Uncover High Levels of Childhood Lead, Nutritional Deficiencies, and Forever Chemicals — Will Cease to Exist
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.
Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN
- Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Informatics , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Canada Montgomery, MD, MSHP
- Fellow, Neurosurgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN
- Professor Emerita , Penn Nursing
Sarah Gutman, MD, MSPH
- Assistant Professor, OB/GYN , Perelman School of Medicine
Katherine Pitcher, BSN
- PhD Student, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Robert Hornik, PhD
- Wilbur Schramm Professor Emeritus, Communication and Health Policy , Annenberg School for Communication
Tarryn Tertulien, MD, MSc
- Clinical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine