Health Care Access and Coverage
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.
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 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.
Five Things to Know about AI and Health Care
Radiology Is Hot, Diagnosis Is Still in The Future
AI Poses Great Potential and Peril for Healthcare
At an Oct. 10 Conference, Experts from LDI and the Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab Will Discuss the Thorniest Questions About AI
Report from the 2024 Penn Nudges in Health Care Symposium
The Sixth Annual National Gathering Draws Nearly 200 Experts from 29 Institutions
One-Third of U.S. Firearm Injuries in 2019 and 2020 Were Fatal
First-of-Its-Kind National Analysis Shows Racial and Geographic Disparities
Neighborhood Violence Is Linked to Using More Acute Care and Unmet Preventive and Mental Health Care Needs
Study Identifies Connections Between Violence Exposure and Forgone Care Due to Cost
Four Steps to Ethically Build Apps and Other Digital Health Tools
LDI Fellows Offer Specific Ways to Avoid Disparities and Serve Patients Better
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.
Millan AbiNader, PhD, MSW
- Assistant Professor, Social Work & Social Policy, School of Social Policy & Practice
Catherine Auriemma, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Beatrice C. Go, MD
- Resident, Otorhinolaryngology, Perelman School of Medicine
Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
Ari Borthakur, PhD, MBA
- Associate Director, Center for Magnetic Resonance & Optical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine
Molly Davis, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
Daniel Polsky, PhD, MPP
- Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Maria Alejandra Benítez
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics, Wharton School