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.
Explore Our Latest Research and News
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.
Jaya Aysola’s Remarks from UN Panel on Health Care for the Disabled
LDI Senior Fellow Calls for a Major Upgrade in Best Practices
States Weigh in on Trump Administration’s Medicaid Fraud Push
LDI/Tradeoffs Virtual Seminar Explores the New Federal Actions and Why Fraud is Hard to Measure
Pregnancy Can Turn Deadly Before Prenatal Care Begins
LDI Fellow and OB-GYN Calls for Faster Testing and Better Early-Pregnancy Care
From Secret Health Care Prices to Too Much Information
Why a 2020 Federal Price Transparency Initiative has yet to Produce a Consumer Shopping Revolution
Lung Cancer Screening Isn’t Enough. Pay People to Quit Smoking.
Cash Incentives Doubled Quit Rates Among High-Risk Patients, Penn LDI Study Finds
Securing Abandoned Houses May Prevent Fatal Opioid Overdoses
Penn Study Finds Fewer Fatal Overdoses on Blocks Where Vacant Buildings were Sealed
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.
Scott Lorch, MD, MSCE
- Professor, Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
Ari Borthakur, PhD, MBA
- Associate Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance & Optical Imaging, Department of Radiology , Perelman School of Medicine
J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Adolescent Medicine , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Elizabeth Kuhn, MD
- Fellow, Hospital Medicine , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Ariel Kamen, RN
- PhD Student, Centers for Policy and Health Outcomes , Penn Nursing
David Lydon-Staley, PhD
- Associate Professor, Communication , Annenberg School for Communication
Molly Candon, PhD
- Director, Associate Fellows Program , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry , Perelman School of Medicine
Lea Ann Matura, PhD, RN
- Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing