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.
What Do You Know About the History of the U.S. Health System?
Milestones Like Medicare, Private Equity and Now AI Shape a $4.9 Trillion System. Can You Name Them?
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
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.
Naria Sealy
- PhD Student, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Karen Hirschman, PhD, MSW
- Research Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
Kelli Williams, MPH
- PhD Student, Epidemiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Hongzhe Li, PhD
- Perelman Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor of Statistics and Data Science , Wharton School
Sankey Williams, MD
- Professor Emeritus, General Internal Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor Emeritus, Health Care Management , Wharton School
David Lydon-Staley, PhD
- Associate Professor, Communication , Annenberg School for Communication
Rama Hagos, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology , School of Arts and Sciences
Nancy Aitcheson, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease , Perelman School of Medicine