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.
Worsening Faster Than It’s Improving: The U.S. Mental Health Care Delivery System
A Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Grapples with One of Health Care’s Most Complex Problems
Health Care and Abortion in Post-Roe America
A Penn LDI Virtual Panel Gathers Experts to Discuss Abortion Post-Roe
Q&A: Ravi Parikh on Medicare Cost-Saving Programs
Study Finds Cost Differences Between Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Shared Savings Program
Vaccinating the Vaccine-Hesitant
Three Things That Can Be Done
Time Is of the Essence When it Comes to Firearm Injuries
How Proximity to Care Can Impact Firearm Mortality Rates
Paying Patients Can Improve Engagement in Mental Health Treatment
Research Supports Expanding the Practice Beyond Substance Use Disorder Treatment
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.
Kira Ryskina, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Robert Krouse, MD, MS
- Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Jennifer Ginestra, MD, MSHP
- NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
Dalmacio Dennis Flores, PhD, ACRN
- Assistant Professor, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
Kevin Jenkins, PhD
- Vice-Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Policy & Practice
William Smith, MD, PhD
- Fellow, Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
Elizabeth Howell, MD, MPP
- Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine
Justin Grischkan, MD
- Fellow, National Clinician Scholar Program, Perelman School of Medicine