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.
Estimated Overdose Deaths Due to the Loss of MOUD in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Health Impacts of SNAP Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Fixing The Bill: How Better Medicare Cost Reporting Can Slash U.S. Health Care Waste
Hospitals’ Current Cost Reports are Unreliable and Should be Improved, LDI Fellow Finds
How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes
If Federal Support Falls, States May Slash Home- and Community-Based Services — Pushing Vulnerable Americans Into Nursing Homes They Don’t Want or Need
Experts: Medicaid Cuts Could Prove Fatal for Thousands
Historic Coverage Loss Could Cause Over 51,000 People to Lose Their Lives Each Year, New Analysis Finds
Atul Gupta and Catherine Ishitani Win 2025 NIHCM Research Award
Cited for “Breaking New Ground” in the Field of Hospital Operations
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.
Priyanka Joshi, MD
- Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Debra Whorms, MD
- Assistant Professor, Radiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Aileen Rothbard, ScD
- Emeritus Research Professor , School of Social Policy & Practice
Alonso Carrasco-Labra, DDS, PhD
- Associate Professor, Preventive and Restorative Sciences and Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) , Penn Dental Medicine
Matthew McHugh, PhD, RN
- The Independence Chair for Nursing Education , Penn Nursing
- Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research , Penn Nursing
Megan Ryerson, PhD
- Chair, City and Regional Planning , Weitzman School of Design
- Professor, City and Regional Planning , Weitzman School of Design
Rupal O’Quinn, MD, FACC
- Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Adriana Perez, PhD
- Associate Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing