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.
Patients with Primary Care Get Better Results in Emergency Surgery
Surgeons Should Consider Primary Care Use in Patient Evaluations, LDI Experts Say
Low-Income Parents Are Missed By Program That Gives $100 to Each Newborn For College
LDI Fellows’ Survey Shows Caretakers Unaware and Confused About Pa.’s Program
A Confusing Patchwork of Laws Govern Nurses’ Ability to Practice
States’ Scope of Practice Laws Need to Be Standardized
NIH Hub Puts Penn at Center of New National Maternal Health Research Push
AMETHIST@Penn Implementation Science Center Headed by LDI Senior Fellows
How Patient Restraints Are Being Used in a Children’s Hospital
LDI Experts Summarize the Trends Amid the Growing Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
Report from the 2023 Penn Medicine Nudges in Health Care Symposium
Nudge Science at the Crossroads and the Obstacles it Faces
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.
Anand Shah, MD, MPH
- Operating Advisor, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Gary Bass, MD, MSc, MBA, FEBS
- Assistant Professor, Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Sasmira Matta, MS
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School
Cynthia Connolly, PhD, RN, PNP
- Rosemarie B. Greco Term Endowed Professorship in Advocacy, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
- Associate Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, Penn Nursing
Eileen Lake, PhD, RN
- Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor of Gerontology, Penn Nursing
- Professor, Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences
Brianna Morgan, MSN
- PhD student, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, Penn Nursing
Ari Friedman, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Likhitha Kolla
- MD/PhD Student, Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine