Health Care Access and Coverage
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.
Focus Areas and Initiatives
Penn LDI’s work fits broadly under five focus areas that highlight some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation’s health and health care.
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.
Marilyn Schapira Honored with Perelman School of Medicine Award
Recipient of 2024 Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award
Patients Do Better When Care Teams Collaborate
But Professionals Must Learn from Each Other to Bond as a Team
Unfinished Business: Tackling Fragmented Care for Dual Eligibles
Second Penn LDI 2024 Meeting on the Issue Discusses Policy Recommendation Details
Medicare Advantage: LDI Fellows’ Findings On The Largest Part of Medicare
A Digest of LDI Research on Equity, Costs, and Care in Medicare Advantage Over The Last Two Years
Investing In Safety: Reimbursing Safe Firearm Storage Counseling
Leveraging Medicaid to Prioritize Pediatric Safety and Prevent Firearm Injuries
What C-Suite Nurse Leaders Say About LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Health Care
Inclusive Care Needs Action and Intention, LDI Fellow Says
Worker Wages Stagnate as Medicaid Home Care Spending Rises
Raising Reimbursement Rates and Wages Would Support a Stable Workforce and Better Care, LDI Fellows Say
Five LDI Senior Fellows Win Grants to Study Transitional Housing for People with HIV
Project Funded Through a Partnership of LDI, Penn CFAR and the City of Philadelphia