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.
Temperature Extremes Mean More No-Shows at Pediatric Visits
Kids Missed Doctor’s Appointments More Often in Severe Weather
Kids Are Getting Sicker. The NIH Must Adapt, LDI Fellow Writes
His Team Urges NIH Reforms to Spur Pediatric Research and Reverse America’s Worsening Child Health Crisis
How the No Surprises Act Solved One Problem and Created Another
LDI Tradeoffs Seminar Examines How Arbitration Rules Are Inflating Payments and Overwhelming the System
Heat and Cold Deaths Are Rising Faster for Less Educated Americans
Chart of the Day: New Study Links Lower Education Levels to Rising Climate-Related Deaths
Cost Plus Drugs Beats Health Insurance for High-Cost Generics
Chart of the Day: Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs Can Save Employer-Covered Patients Hundreds on Some Generics
Penn LDI’s Eric Roberts Wins AcademyHealth Publication of the Year Award
Cited for the “Most Outstanding” Health Services Research of 2025
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.
David Lydon-Staley, PhD
- Associate Professor, Communication , Annenberg School for Communication
Bhavik Patel, MD, MSHP
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Syed Khalid, MD
- Neurosurgery Research Fellow , Perelman School of Medicine
Kathryn Bowles, PhD, RN
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Science , Penn Nursing
- van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence , Penn Nursing
Caitlin Russell, PhD, MBE
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program , Perelman School of Medicine
- Instructor, Women’s Health Gender Related NP Track , Penn Nursing
Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, MBE
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics & Health Policy and Psychiatry , Perelman School of Medicine
Joan Gluch, PhD, RDH
- Professor, Preventive and Restorative Sciences , Penn Dental Medicine
- Division Chief, Community Oral Health , Penn Dental Medicine
Hongzhe Li, PhD
- Perelman Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor of Statistics and Data Science , Wharton School