From Our Executive Director

New technological advances, campaign talking points, and the continued push for affordable care raised many questions in a dynamic health policy landscape in 2024. LDI answered this call by hosting seminars and conferences, facilitating public testimonies, and continuing our work to support and train the next generation of health services researchers. Our Fellows’ insights and expertise was featured in blogs, videos, and news stories. We supported research seeking to support the health care workforce and to improve access to care. We convened national experts to unravel the complexities around generative AI in health care, integrating care for dually eligible individuals, and sustainably funding multimillion dollar gene therapies.

We invite you to look back at 2024 with us. The features listed here only skim the surface of our collective impact last year. Please click through in each section to see more. I look forward to continuing to celebrate this work long past the new year, and to driving more progress in the new year towards improving health and health care for everyone in the U.S.

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2024 By the Numbers

550+Affiliated Researchers

11,300+Journal Articles Published (2020-2024)

6,600+Event Attendees

190+Research Updates Published

$400K+Awarded in Research Grants from LDI

$160M+Awarded in External Grant Funding

Research

Penn LDI published over 190 research updates in 2024, covering the work of many LDI Fellows and a wide array of health care topics, including the opioid crisis, improving care for older adults, health equity, and more. Check out some of the top updates of the year below.

Events

Penn LDI hosted a full schedule of events in 2024. Our virtual policy seminars reached a wide, interdisciplinary, national audience, and were supplemented by in-person seminars, workshops, and events. In total we hosted over 35 events in 2024 on campus, online, and around the country. See recaps of selected events below.

Fellow Accomplishments and Awards

Penn LDI brings together the greatest minds from across the University of Pennsylvania to address the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today. Their work garners national attention and the highest honors in the field. This year, LDI Fellows received major awards and honors recognizing their work. A sampling of these is listed below.

• LDI Fellows Kathryn Bowles, Scott Halpern, and Eugenia South Named to National Academy of Medicine
• Jay Aysola Wins Nursing Outlook Article of the Year Award
• Connie Ulrich Receives National Award for Advances in Bioethics
• Amanda Kreider Receives ASHEcon Chair Award
• Sean Hennessy Wins Clinical Pharmacology Society Award
• Shivan Mehta Wins 2024 Clinical and Translational Science Award
• Robert Burke and Paula Chatterjee Win Top Society of Hospital Medicine Awards
• Eileen Lake and Salimah Meghani Named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
• Scott Jelinek Wins Society for Pediatric Research Award
• Sindhu Srinivas and Adi Hirshberg Honored by American Heart Association
• José Bauermeister Appointed to NIH Council on Health Equity
• Paula Chatterjee Wins ASCI 2024 Young Physician-Scientist Award

Fellows in the Media

During 2024, LDI Fellows authored op-eds and commentaries, lending their voices and authority to the nation’s current health care policy debates. LDI Fellows also shared their expertise in major media outlets, including the New York Times, USA Today, and The Hill. Selected media features are highlighted below.

Penn LDI Research Training Programs

Penn LDI continued its work to help support and train the next generation of researchers in 2024, through its array of training programs, ranging from undergraduate to postdoctoral programs. Highlights from a few of this year’s programs are below.

Policy Impact

Penn LDI is committed to engaging in multiple aspects of direct policymaker engagement. Highlights of LDI’s participation in timely and important policy debates are below.

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