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.
Unhealthy Housing Is a Public Health Threat, Penn’s Cheryl Bettigole Says
Former Philadelphia Health Commissioner Releases Policy Brief as City Council Weighs Stronger Tenant Protections
AI Device Firms Pay $60M to U.S. Doctors, Raising Oversight Concerns
In a First-of-Its-Kind Analysis, Researchers Track Industry Payments Tied to AI Medical Devices and Call for Stronger FDA Oversight, Transparency, and Aid for Underserved Hospitals
When Insurers Acquire Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Medicare Members Could Pay More
Health Insurer Acquisition of PBMs — the Prescription Drug Middlemen — Raised Premiums for Some Part D Beneficiaries
Linda Aiken to Receive ANA President’s Award
LDI Senior Fellow Honored for International Research Achievements
Optimizing Health Care for the Maternal-Infant Dyad
Memo: Delivered to the Office of Pennsylvania State Senator Maria Collett
Rural Health Funds May Not Reach Hardest-Hit States, Study Finds
First Rural Health Grants May Not Go to Areas With the Greatest Needs, LDI Experts Find
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.
Harald Schmidt, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Andrea Schneider, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neurology and Epidemiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Diana Bongiorno, MD, MPH
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program , Perelman School of Medicine
Megan McSherry, MD, MS
- Postdoctoral Fellow , Perelman School of Medicine
Louise Russell, PhD
- Adjunct Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Chén Kenyon, MD, MSHP
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Hospitalist, General Pediatrics and Complex Care , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Kara Michel, MD, MSHP
- Resident, Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Michael Anne Kyle, PhD, RN
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine