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.
Federal Medicaid Spending Cuts: The Wrong Ways and the Right Ways
As Congress Considers Cuts to Medicaid Spending, Policymakers Should Better Account for States’ Ability to Pay
Research Brief: Simple Visual Aids Raise Awareness and Knowledge About HIV Treatment
Bead-Filled Bottles May Change Attitudes and Help Prevent HIV Transmission, LDI Fellows Show in Philadelphia Studies
What’s the Best Way to Design a Black Barbershop Health Intervention?
Penn LDI Researcher Derek Griffith’s Project Unpacks the Process
Experiences of Patients With Disabilities Can Inform How to Improve Care
Patients Perceive Gaps in Communication and Disrespect During Health Care Visits According to a National Survey
Medicaid’s Role in Health and in the Health Care Landscape
LDI Expert Insights and Key Takeaways from Select Publications
AI Scribes: Can Technology Do More Than Free Doctors From Data Entry?
A Penn Lab Takes a New Approach to Unpacking the Doctor-Patient Encounter
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.
Catherine Auriemma, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Stephanie Van Decker, MD, MS
- Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Sasmira Matta, MS
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
Emily MacKay, DO, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS
- Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Addiction Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Beth Linker, PhD, MBE
- Professor, History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts and Sciences
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Catherine Vanchiere, MD, MA
- Clinical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Gary Bass, MD, MSc, MBA, FEBS
- Medical Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Pennsylvania Hospital
- Assistant Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine