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.
Penn LDI at the 2026 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
A Gathering of Health Services Researchers During One of the Field’s Most Tumultuous Years
Penn Research Posters at 2026 AcademyHealth Research Meeting
Photo Feature of Investigators and Their Work
Temperature Extremes Mean More No-Shows at Pediatric Visits
Kids Missed Doctor’s Appointments More Often in Severe Weather
Kids Are Getting Sicker. The NIH Must Adapt, LDI Fellow Writes
His Team Urges NIH Reforms to Spur Pediatric Research and Reverse America’s Worsening Child Health Crisis
How the No Surprises Act Solved One Problem and Created Another
LDI Tradeoffs Seminar Examines How Arbitration Rules Are Inflating Payments and Overwhelming the System
Heat and Cold Deaths Are Rising Faster for Less Educated Americans
Chart of the Day: New Study Links Lower Education Levels to Rising Climate-Related Deaths
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.
Hummy Song, PhD, MPP
- Associate Professor, Operations, Information, and Decisions, and Healthcare Management , Wharton School
Paula Magee, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine
Syed Khalid, MD
- Neurosurgery Research Fellow , Perelman School of Medicine
Derek M. Griffith, PhD
- Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Catherine Vanchiere, MD, MA
- Clinical Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Anireddy Reddy, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Jackson Reimer
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics , Wharton School
Courtney Schreiber, MD, MPH
- Emily and Stuart Mudd Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Perelman School of Medicine
- Chief of the Division of Family Planning , Perelman School of Medicine