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.
Health Care Algorithms Can Improve or Worsen Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Users Need To Understand Existing Disparities and Why Race Can Be Imprecise
Exploring the Policies That Are Closing Rural Hospitals
A Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Looks at Trends Driving the Crisis
4 Ways Health Officials Can Communicate Better in the Next Pandemic
COVID-19’s Key Challenges Provide Insight for Future Outbreaks
Future Bundled Payment Models Need To Engage Physician Group Practices
Looking Forward, LDI Fellows Offer Their Perspectives and Expertise
Fixing Medicare’s Problem of Inadequately Coordinated Care
Penn LDI’s Amol Navathe Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Medicaid’s New Policy Boosts Street Medicine in the U.S.
But More Funding and Better Rules Are Needed to Help People Who Are Addicted or Homeless, LDI Experts Say
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.
Katherine Britt, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, Penn Nursing
Neil A. Ray, MD
- Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Aaron Schwartz, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Frank Leone, MD, MS
- Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Michael J. Neuss, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Sarah Schrauben, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Division of Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension, and Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine
Julia Tchou, MD, PhD
- Professor, Clinical Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Cynthia Chude
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School