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
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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
Older Black Adults With Abdominal Pain Are Less Likely to Get Emergency Department Imaging
Chart of the Day: National Study Shows White Patients More Likely Than Black Patients to Get CT and/or Ultrasounds for Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department
Caring for Disadvantaged Patients: What Nurses Say Works—and What Doesn’t
LDI Fellows Uncover Six Key Barriers and Solutions to Achieving Better Hospital Care
Incarcerated Patients May Not Receive the Surgical Care They Need
The Prison System Often Fails to Meet Even Basic Standards for Pre- and Post-Operative Health, Experts Say
Penn Medicine’s LeadIN Program Trains Philly Teens to Green Their Neighborhoods
Photo & Text Story of an Urban Health Lab Initiative to Improve Health and Community Stability
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
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