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Penn LDI Raises $5.5 Million in Landmark Davis Family Gift Initiative

Includes $1 Million in Donations to Meet a Matching Challenge

By:
  • Hoag Levins
November 5, 2025
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In Their Own Words

A Call to Keep Philadelphia’s Soda Tax

For Seven Years, Revenue Has Supported Education, Community Projects, and Better Health Outcomes

By:
  • Christina Roberto, PhD
  • and Alyssa Moran, ScD, MPH
November 4, 2025

News

Health Care Payment and Financing

How 60 Years of Change Realigned U.S. Health Law’s Role

Government Regulatory Power Wanes as Power Accrues to Courts and Corporations

By:
  • Hoag Levins
November 4, 2025
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Blog Post

Even When SNAP Payments Resume, More Food Cuts Will Affect Millions of Americans

Temporary Shutdown Losses are Only the Beginning: New Rules Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will Shrink SNAP Benefits, and Worsen Food Insecurity for Millions Across the U.S.

By:
  • Nancy Stedman
November 3, 2025

Brief

Health Care Access & Coverage

Less Postacute Care for Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Does Not Mean Worse Health

Research Brief: Shorter Stays in Skilled Nursing Facilities and Less Home Health Didn’t Lead to Worse Outcomes, Pointing to Opportunities for Traditional Medicare

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
October 30, 2025
Magnifying glass focusing on cholesterol and sodium on a food label.

Blog Post

U.S. Food Policy at a Turning Point: Time to Remove Ultra-Processed Foods from Our Plates

A New Call to Action Urges Three Ways State and Local Leaders Can Act To Ban Additives, Improve Food Labels, and Restrict Marketing to Children

By:
  • Senbagam Virudachalam, MD, MSHP
  • and Deniz Cataltepe, MD
October 29, 2025
The hands of an older adult holding yellow and white flowers, their hands embraced by another adult.

In Their Own Words

Improving Care for Older Adults

A New Era in Treating Dementia

New Therapies Inspire Hope, Even as Access and Treatment Risks Continue to Challenge Patients and Providers

By:
  • Jason Karlawish, MD
October 27, 2025

Policy

Health Benefits of Philadelphia’s Sweetened Beverage Tax

Testimony: Delivered to Philadelphia City Council's Committee on Labor and Civil Service

By:
  • Christina Roberto, PhD
October 27, 2025

News

Health Care Payment and Financing

A New Mark Pauly Book About What Health Care Managers Don’t Know

The Wharton Professor Produces a Compendium of Economics Wisdom for Health Care Pros

By:
  • Hoag Levins
October 27, 2025

News

Population Health

Contradictions That Confuse Federal Food Policies

Announcing Bold New Goals While Crippling the Infrastructure Needed to Achieve Them

By:
  • Hoag Levins
October 27, 2025
A team of clinicians in the ER standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their backs facing the camera.

In Their Own Words

ER Violence Rises – Nurses and Doctors Say These Changes Could Prevent Assaults

LDI Fellows Call for Real-Time De-Escalation Teams and Safer Staffing Ratios to Prevent Chaos Before it Erupts

By:
  • K. Jane Muir, PhD, APRN
  • Anish K. Agarwal, MD, MPH
October 22, 2025

News

Improving Care for Older Adults

$27.2 Million National Effort Launches to Unify Alzheimer’s Research Data

Penn LDI Senior Fellow Yong Chen Is an MPI in the 10-Institution NIA Undertaking

By:
  • Hoag Levins
October 22, 2025

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