
Research & Policy Updates


Chart of the Day: An Online Education Platform Reduced Pregnancy-Related Anxiety
Study Finds Lower Worry Around Body Image, Delivery, and More for Low-Income, High-Risk Patients

Community Health Workers’ Role Grows With Evidence That They Improve Care and Equity
Benefits Include More Access to Care and Lower Costs, but Funding is Limited

Ending UNOS’s Monopoly Over the U.S. Organ Transplant System
First-Ever Change Aims to Improve Efficiency, Survival, and Equity — But LDI Experts Advise Caution

What Patient-To-Nurse Ratios Mean for Hospital Patient Health and Outcomes
Pennsylvania Legislature Pushed to Take Up Patient Safety Issue It Has Long Avoided

Study Finds Home Health Is Another Care Setting Where Workers Use Harsher Language for Black and Hispanic Patients
Patients Described Negatively, Had Much Shorter Visits According to the First Study of Its Kind on Home Health

Extreme Heat and Health: Understanding the Scope of the Problem
From the 2023 Perry World House Global Shifts Colloquium, “Living With Extreme Heat: Our Shared Future.”

Paula Chatterjee Receives SGIM Best Published Research Paper Award
Cited for "Significant Contributions to Generalist Research"

10 Takeaways from LDI’s Drug Pricing Conference
Experts Weigh in on the Government’s New Price-Setting Powers and What Lies Ahead

Penn’s David Grande Named Special Advisor to PA DHS Acting Secretary Valerie Arkoosh
LDI Director of Policy to Split Time Between Philadelphia Campus and Harrisburg

Water is a Basic Human Right. So Why is Philly Resuming Shutoffs May 24?
The Amount of Money Collected by Shutting Off Service to Customers Who Can’t Afford to Pay is a Drop in the Bucket Compared to the Incredible Damage That Shutoffs Cause

What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Really Mean for Drug Pricing?
A Photo Report from LDI's Health Care Drug Pricing Conference