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.
A Bold Plan to Fix Medicaid
Democrats Must Go Beyond Reversing Trump-Era Cuts With a New Strategy to Streamline Coverage, Reduce Waste, and Expand Access to Medicaid
A Hidden Threat After Cancer: Food Insecurity and Early Death
Food-Insecure Cancer Survivors Live Shorter Lives, Especially if They Can’t Use Federal Programs Like SNAP
Policy Recommendations for Strengthening the Accelerated Approval Program for Oncology Drugs
Memo: Delivered to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Over 500 U.S. Hospitals Have Stopped Delivering Babies Since 2010
A Crisis in Maternal Care is Unfolding—and it’s Hitting Rural and Urban Communities Alike
Pennsylvania’s Big Plan to Save Rural Hospitals Gets Mixed Reviews
Stable Payments Improved Margins But Not Liquidity, New LDI Analysis Finds
Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir Wins 2025 Emergency Nurses Association Award
LDI Senior Fellow Cited for “Significant Contributions” in Research
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.
Christopher Caruso, MD, MPH
- Clinical Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
- Student, Master of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP) , Perelman School of Medicine
Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Anesthesia and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine
Jessica Fishman, PhD
- Director, Message Effects Lab , Annenberg School for Communication
Alexandra Bray, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Care Management , Wharton School
Yong Chen, PhD
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Keven Cabrera, MD
- Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Steven Marcus, PhD
- Associate Professor , School of Social Policy & Practice
Jalpa Doshi, PhD
- Leon Hess Professor of Internal Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine