AI in Health Care
Harnessing artificial intelligence to improve health care delivery and outcomes.
Focus Areas and Initiatives
Penn LDI’s work fits broadly under seven focus areas that highlight some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation’s health and health care.
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.
Population Health
Focusing on how societal events, structural forces, and policies influence the health of populations.
Substance Use Disorder
Finding sustainable, humane, and effective strategies to address substance use disorder.
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.
A Bold Plan to Fix Medicaid
Democrats Must Go Beyond Reversing Trump-Era Cuts With a New Strategy to Streamline Coverage, Reduce Waste, and Expand Access to Medicaid
A Hidden Threat After Cancer: Food Insecurity and Early Death
Food-Insecure Cancer Survivors Live Shorter Lives, Especially if They Can’t Use Federal Programs Like SNAP
Policy Recommendations for Strengthening the Accelerated Approval Program for Oncology Drugs
Memo: Delivered to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Over 500 U.S. Hospitals Have Stopped Delivering Babies Since 2010
A Crisis in Maternal Care is Unfolding—and it’s Hitting Rural and Urban Communities Alike
Pennsylvania’s Big Plan to Save Rural Hospitals Gets Mixed Reviews
Stable Payments Improved Margins But Not Liquidity, New LDI Analysis Finds
Penn Nursing’s Jane Muir Wins 2025 Emergency Nurses Association Award
LDI Senior Fellow Cited for “Significant Contributions” in Research
HIV is Not a Crime: The Case for Ending HIV Criminalization
Outdated Laws Target Black and Queer Lives in Over 30 States, Fueling a Deadly Disease
LDI and Wharton’s Cynthia Chude Wins 2025 MiFF PhD Scholar Award
Selected for Current and Future Research in the Science of Amputee Care