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.
Research Brief: Medicare’s Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program Fails to Lower Hospital Readmissions
New Incentive Structures and Metrics May Improve Program Performance
For-Profit Hospitals Invest Less in Nursing Services
As States Consider Reforms, Study Finds Sharp Disparities in Staffing and Safety Between For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals
Black Maternity Patients More Likely to Experience Clinical Communications Failures
New Penn LDI Study Is Based on Hospital Incident Reports Rather Than Electronic Health Records
Better Care at Home: Family Plus Formal Help Makes a Difference
Economist Norma Coe’s Caregiving For Relatives Informed Her Research
Penn SUMR Scholars Arrive at 2025 AcademyHealth Research Meeting
Minneapolis Event Immerses Them in the National Health Services Research Community
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.
Nabila Dahodwala, MD, MS
- Professor, Neurology , Perelman School of Medicine
Stephanie Mayne, PhD, MHS
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
John Holmes, PhD
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor , Penn Nursing
Peter Cronholm, MD, MSCE
- Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
Beth Pineles, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology , Perelman School of Medicine
Katherine Pitcher, BSN
- PhD Student, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Patty Kuo, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry , Perelman School of Medicine
Jessica Abene, BSN, RN
- PhD Student, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing