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.
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
Medicaid Financing and the Health Care Safety Net
Preparing for Challenges Ahead
Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports Data
Issue Brief: Understanding Gaps and Opportunities to Advance Research and Policy
How One Study Helped Save Free Preventive Care in a Supreme Court Showdown
A 2024 Study Showing How Even Small Copays Reduce PrEP Use Fueled Media, Legal, and Advocacy Efforts As Courts Weighed a Case Threatening No-Cost Preventive Care for Millions
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.
Nicole Conover, MSN
- PhD Student, Nursing , Penn Nursing
Mary Naylor, PhD, RN
- Marian S. Ware Professor, Gerontology , Penn Nursing
- Director, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Keven Cabrera, MD
- Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Pinar Yildirim, PhD
- Associate Professor, Marketing , Wharton School
- Associate Professor, Economics , School of Arts and Sciences
Eileen Lake, PhD, RN
- Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor of Gerontology , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Sociology , School of Arts and Sciences
April Ancheta, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Emily Vail, MD, MSc
- Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine
Grace Lee, MD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program , Perelman School of Medicine