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Population Health

Catherine McDonald and Andy Tan Win Presidential PECASE Awards

Highest Federal Honor for Science and Engineering Professionals

By:
  • Hoag Levins
January 23, 2025

Blog Post

Health Equity

A Preterm Birth Study by LDI Fellows Supports Newly Instituted Changes to Racial and Ethnic Categorizations by a Key U.S. Agency

The Changes Aim to Better Capture Peoples’ True Identities on Birth Certificates  

By:
  • Kayla Holloway
January 22, 2025

Blog Post

Population Health

LDI Senior Fellow Andy Tan Seeks to Undo the Damage the Tobacco Industry Causes in the LGBTQ+ Community

Using Messages Tailored for LGBTQ+ People Who Smoke, Tan and Colleagues Aim to Reduce Their Tobacco Use

By:
  • Nancy Stedman
January 22, 2025

News

Health Equity

Sindhu Srinivas Named Executive Director of HUP-Cedar Ave

A Public Health Campus Changing the Way Health Care is Delivered in Underserved Communities

By:
  • Hoag Levins
January 21, 2025

News

Health Equity

Lauren Eberly to Receive 2025 ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award

Cited for Her Heart Failure Research Among Indigenous Populations

By:
  • Hoag Levins
January 16, 2025

Blog Post

We Need to Understand Dobbs’ Impacts on Abortions – But Can Existing Data Help?

Challenges and Opportunities to Using Insurance Data to Analyze Abortion Care

By:
  • Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP
January 16, 2025

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Chart of the Day: More U.S. Patients Use Acupuncture for Low Back Pain, But it Remains Rare

Penn LDI Study Examines Insurance Claims to Learn More about Patients Who Get Acupuncture

By:
  • Christine Weeks
January 15, 2025

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Congress Extends More Telehealth Care Just Before the 2024 Holidays

But Many Services Were Only Extended Until March 2025

By:
  • Liz Seegert
January 14, 2025

News

Improving Care for Older Adults

Pilot Project Begun in LDI’s CICADA Program is Published by JAMA Network

LDI Senior Fellow and Former CICADA Scholar Yehoda Martei Investigated Guideline-Concordant Cancer Care in Older Adults with Cancer

By:
  • Hoag Levins
January 14, 2025

Blog Post

Health Equity

A Dedicated Effort to Reduce Black Birth Complications Yields Results

LDI Fellows Find a Coordinated Systematic Intervention Improved Black Maternal Health Outcomes

By:
  • Christine Weeks
January 8, 2025

News

Population Health

2025 LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory Projects Announced

By:
  • LDI Staff
January 8, 2025

Policy

Health Care Access & Coverage

Insurance Coverage for Over-the-Counter Preventive Services Without a Prescription

Comment: Submitted to the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services

By:
  • LDI Staff
January 6, 2025

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