Only One in Four High-Risk Rural Births Get Appropriate Hospital Care
A Multi-State Study Finds That Parents Often Travel 60+ Miles—With Distance, Insurance, and Race Driving Gaps in Maternal Care
Population Health
Focusing on how societal events, structural forces, and policies influence the health of populations.
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Heart Failure Patients May Get Sicker When the Rent Is Too High
Cheaper Housing Could be a Way to Lower Hospitalizations Among Medicaid Patients with Heart Failure
LDI Research Helped Shape Pennsylvania’s New Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit
Pa.’s New Bipartisan Tax Credit is Designed to be Simple and Refundable – Reflecting Core Points From Penn LDI Researchers Who Briefed State Leaders
Contradictions That Confuse Federal Food Policies
Announcing Bold New Goals While Crippling the Infrastructure Needed to Achieve Them
Cash Transfers and Healthy Birth Outcomes
Promising New Evidence and What’s Next
Black Life Expectancy Shows Sharp Geographic Divide: Cities Gained, While Midwest and Rural Areas Fell Back
From 1990 to 2019, Black Life Expectancy Rose Most in Major Metros and the Northeast—but Gains Stalled or Reversed in Rural Areas and the Midwest, Especially for Younger Adults
The Gaps in What We Know and Don’t Know About the COVID Pandemic
A Penn LDI Seminar Focuses on Why They’re Important for the Future
Why RFK Jr.’s Public Health Agenda Threatens Us All
Former Philadelphia Health Commissioner Warns That Gutting the CDC, Undermining Vaccines, and Politicizing Science Will Leave the U.S. Dangerously Unprepared for the Next Pandemic
New Parents Put Infants’ Health First, While Their Own Suffers
Rural Parents Had More Emergency Visits and Insurance Loss Than Urban Peers, an LDI Study Shows. Integrated Baby Visits Could Help All Parents Be Healthier
Whitley Aamodt, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Neurology , Perelman School of Medicine
Linda Aiken, PhD, RN
- Claire Fagin Leadership Professor , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Sociology , School of Arts and Sciences
April Ancheta, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
George Anesi, MD, MSCE
- Assistant Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Joao Victor Antunes Lopes
- PhD Student, Demography , School of Arts and Sciences
Robert A. Aronowitz, MD
- Professor and Chair, History and Sociology of Science , School of Arts and Sciences
- Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor, Social Sciences , School of Arts and Sciences
Carolyn H. Asbury, ScMPH, PhD
- Former Senior Consultant, The Dana Foundation
Frances Barg, PhD
- Professor Emeritus, Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor Emeritus, Anthropology , School of Arts and Sciences