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.
Medicaid Risk Contracts In The New ACO LEAD Model
LDI Experts Highlight Four Considerations for Upcoming Integrated Care Model
Sepsis Patients Get Lost After Hospital Discharge, LDI Fellows Say
But Hospitals Can Find Them and Give Better Follow-Up Care With Digital Tools
Six Things to Know About Cash Transfer Programs and Children’s Health
Cash Alone Isn’t Enough. Here’s What Research Says Families Need
First Responders Face Hidden Brain Injury Risks, Penn LDI Review Finds
Police, Firefighters, and EMTs Suffer More Injuries and Face Care Gaps, LDI Fellow Says
When Hospitals Get Busier, Black Patients Face Higher Death Risk
Distributing Patients Across Hospitals Might Help Close the Racial Gap
$25 Nearly Doubled Black and Hispanic Clinical Trial Enrollment
LDI and CHIBE Fellows Find Small Cash Incentives May Help Close Gaps in Heart Research
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.
Joon Park, MA
- PhD Student, Social Welfare , School of Social Policy & Practice
Irma Elo, PhD, MPA
- Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor, Sociology , School of Arts and Sciences
Dahlia Stott, PhD
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Christian Terwiesch, PhD
- Professor and Chair, Operations, Information, and Decisions , Wharton School
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Steven Joffe, MD, MPH
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
Ariel Kamen, RN
- PhD Student, Centers for Policy and Health Outcomes , Penn Nursing
Alon Bergman, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Health Care Management , Wharton School
Paula Magee, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine