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.
Catherine McDonald and Andy Tan Win Presidential PECASE Awards
Highest Federal Honor for Science and Engineering Professionals
A Preterm Birth Study by LDI Fellows Supports Newly Instituted Changes to Racial and Ethnic Categorizations by a Key U.S. Agency
The Changes Aim to Better Capture Peoples’ True Identities on Birth Certificates
LDI Senior Fellow Andy Tan Seeks to Undo the Damage the Tobacco Industry Causes in the LGBTQ+ Community
Using Messages Tailored for LGBTQ+ People Who Smoke, Tan and Colleagues Aim to Reduce Their Tobacco Use
Sindhu Srinivas Named Executive Director of HUP-Cedar Ave
A Public Health Campus Changing the Way Health Care is Delivered in Underserved Communities
Lauren Eberly to Receive 2025 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award
Cited for Her Heart Failure Research Among Indigenous Populations
We Need to Understand Dobbs’ Impacts on Abortions – But Can Existing Data Help?
Challenges and Opportunities to Using Insurance Data to Analyze Abortion Care
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.
Rachel Kelz, MD, MSCE
- William Maul Measey Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
- Director, Center for Surgery and Health Economics, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD
- Professor, Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine
Charles Kahn, Jr., MD, MS
- Professor and Vice Chair, Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine
Zachary Templeton
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
Heather Brom, PhD, RN
- Research Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Penn Nursing
Jerry Johnson, MD
- Professor Emeritus, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Summer Kaplan, MD, MS
- Associate Professor, Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine
Allison Willis, MD, MS
- Professor, Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine