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.
What Makes an Innovative Academic Medical Center?
Penn Researchers and Leader Describe Key Activities and Factors
The Financial Cost of Complications From Preterm Birth
As Birth Complications Increase, Total Costs Do as Well
The Effect of Private Equity Investment in Health Care
A Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Brings Together Top Financial and Health Care Experts
Justin Bekelman Named to NAM National Cancer Policy Forum
LDI Senior Fellow is a Leading Authority in Cancer Care Innovation
What Keeps Patients With Cancer From Using Financial Assistance Programs?
Barriers Include Perceptions of Eligibility, Fear of Consequences, and Being Overwhelmed, Interviews Show
What Drives Transplant Waitlisting Disparities?
Q&A on a Psychosocial Screening System and its Impact on Racial Minorities
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.
Ravi Parikh, MD, MPP
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Director, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, Perelman School of Medicine
Kevin Jenkins, PhD
- Vice-Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Policy & Practice
- Associate Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, Perelman School of Medicine
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences
Anna Winston, MD, MPH
- Resident, Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
John Morgan, MD
- Fellow, National Clinician Scholar Program, Perelman School of Medicine
Cait M. Lamberton, MBA, PhD
- Professor, Marketing, Wharton School
Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Evan Fieldston, MD, MSHP
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine
- Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia