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.
Incarceration as Social Determinant of Health
Penn Researcher Says Mental Illness, Chronic Disease Risks Surge After Release
What The Pitt Gets Right About the U.S. Health Care System
LDI Fellows Weigh in on the HBO Max Show, Describing Real Challenges From High Patient Bills to Assaults on Nurses in the ER
U.S. AI Boom Could Cause Health Care Costs to Soar Without Changes to Payment Policy
Federal Officials Factor in Health Gains to Control Spending, LDI Fellow Says
Finding Rare Agreement on Fixing the Health Care Affordability Crisis
Former Obama and Trump Advisors Find Some Common Ground at D.C. University of Pennsylvania Event
“Everybody’s Going to Feel the Pain”: Medicaid Cuts Threaten Addiction Treatment
New York Commissioner Warns University of Pennsylvania Conference That Funding Losses Could Force States to Ration Care and Risk Rising Overdose Deaths
Many Maternal Deaths Occur After Birth, With Mental Health a Key Factor
LDI Experts Are Making Postpartum Care Safer With Telehealth, Remote Monitoring, Doulas, and Long-Acting Addiction Care
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.
Yehoda Martei, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Hematology/Oncology , Perelman School of Medicine
Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH
- Director of Innovation , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
- Assistant Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Michael Stawnychy, PhD, CRNP
- Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
Sara Jacoby, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
- Associate Professor, Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Lawton Robert Burns, PhD, MBA
- James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, Health Care Management , Wharton School
- Professor, Management , Wharton School
Ashish Thakrar, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Li Shen, PhD
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics , Perelman School of Medicine