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.
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
Heart Failure Patients May Get Sicker When the Rent Is Too High
Cheaper Housing Could be a Way to Lower Hospitalizations Among Medicaid Patients with Heart Failure
When Nurses Strike, It’s a Warning About Patient Safety
An LDI Expert Connects Nurse Wellbeing and Staffing to Patient Safety Outcomes
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.
Barbara Kahn, PhD, MBA
- Patty and Jay H. Baker Professor, Marketing , Wharton School
- Professor, Medical Ethics & Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Alisa Stephens-Shields, PhD
- Associate Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Lily Brown, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Psychiatry , Perelman School of Medicine
Timothy Markman, MD
- Assistant Professor, Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease , Perelman School of Medicine
Amol Navathe, MD, PhD
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Healthcare Management , Wharton School
Hyunmin (David) Yu, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research , Penn Nursing
Louis-Xavier Barrette, MD
- Resident, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Ari Borthakur, PhD, MBA
- Associate Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance & Optical Imaging, Department of Radiology , Perelman School of Medicine