COVID-19
Supporting research related to the pandemic and its long-term health and economic implications.
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 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.
Effect of Nudges to Clinicians, Patients, or Both to Increase Statin Prescribing
A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
What the Twitter Upheaval Means to Penn Health Services Researchers
Coming to Grips with the Chaos at a Crucial Scientific Communications Hub
Do Medicaid DSH Funds Go to the Hospitals That Need Them Most?
Mostly, But Program Changes are Needed to Ensure Health Care Access for Low-Income Americans
New Co-Directors Named at Penn Injury Science Center
LDI Senior Fellows Catherine McDonald and Zachary Meisel Take the Helm
Emily Becker-Haimes Wins Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Early Career Award
Recognized for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Implementation Science Research
Why Do Black Patients Receive Fewer Emergency Surgical Consultations than White Patients?
Finding the Answer Could Help Reduce the Disparities that Worsen Outcomes and Survival
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.
Alexandra Maye, MSN, RN
- PhD Student, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, Penn Nursing
Chén Kenyon, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
Doug Strane, MPH
- Health Policy Research Program Manager, PolicyLab, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Shreya Kangovi, MD, MS
- Associate Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Kristin Linn, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine
Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Timothy Markman, MD
- Assistant Professor, Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, Perelman School of Medicine
Onome Osokpo, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Penn Nursing