New APHA Book Warns Social Systems Are Driving Deepening Health Inequities
Penn LDI’s Antonia Villarruel and 10 Other Authors Map Social Determinants Across Multiple Racial and Ethnic Groups
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Inside ICE Detention: Many Facilities Operated Without Qualified Health Staff
A New Study of a Sample of Facilities Found Half Without Any Behavioral Health Staff
New National Study Finds Doctors Paid Less for Treating Black and Hispanic Patients
Physicians Were Paid About 10% Less for Visits Involving Black and Hispanic Patients, With Pediatric Gaps Reaching 15%, According to a First-of-Its-Kind LDI Analysis
Black Older Adults With Cancer Are Far Less Likely to Get Any Care
New Study From LDI and MD Anderson Finds That Black and Low-Income, Dually Eligible Medicare Patients Are Among the Most Neglected in Cancer Care
Black and Hispanic Children Have Higher Death Rates Than White Children After In-Hospital CPR
Equitably Improving Care for Hospitalized Kids Who Experience Cardiac Arrest Requires Hospital-Level Changes, LDI Fellows Say
Hospitals Rarely Use Z Codes to Document Patients’ Social Risks
Billing Codes That Flag Food, Job, or Housing Insecurity in Medical Records are Underused for the Sickest Medicare Patients
Safeguarding Nursing Science Amid Political Retrenchment
Experts Say Nursing Ethics Can Help Researchers Confront Federal Disinvestment, Defend Science, and Advance Health Equity
Penn LDI Researchers Warn of Rising Cardiac Deaths in Prisons
Study Finds Major Gaps in Cardiac Care Behind Bars
Penn LDI CICADA Initiative Names Researchers for 2025-2026 Cohort
Eighth Year of Program That Recruits, Mentors and Develops Junior Faculty for Health Services Research
Whitley Aamodt, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Neurology , Perelman School of Medicine
Jessica Abene, BSN, RN
- PhD Student, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology , Perelman School of Medicine
Millan AbiNader, PhD, MSW
- Assistant Professor, Social Work & Social Policy , School of Social Policy & Practice
David S. Abrams, PhD, MS
- William B. and Mary Barb Johnson Professor of Law and Economics , Carey Law School
- Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy , Wharton School
Emma Achola-Kothari, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow , Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Nancy Aitcheson, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease , Perelman School of Medicine
Diane Alexander, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Healthcare Management , Wharton School