Health Care Access and Coverage
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.
Our Work
We aim to achieve effective and efficient health care for all people by supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research, and education.
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Focus Areas
Health Equity
Improving health and reducing health disparities through a more equitable health care system.
Improving Care for Older Adults
Improving the health, well-being, independence, and care of older adults.
Opioid Epidemic
Finding sustainable, humane, and effective solutions to the opioid epidemic.
Population Health
Focusing on how societal events, structural forces, and policies influence the health of populations.
Featured Research Updates
We support and amplify scholarship that shapes and expands the knowledge required to improve population health, health care delivery, and health policy.
Penn SUMR Scholars Arrive at 2025 AcademyHealth Research Meeting
Minneapolis Event Immerses Them in the National Health Services Research Community
Parents of Hospitalized Infants Often Neglect Their Own Health Care
A Pilot Study Finds Doulas and Midwives in the NICU Helped Parents Get Needed Care Faster
Research Memo: Projected Mortality Impacts of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
Response to Request for Technical Assistance
Two Looming Crises Threaten to Collapse U.S. Long-Term Care
Immigration Crackdown and Medicaid Cuts Put Millions at Risk
The Public Chafed the Last Time the GOP Tried to Cut Medicaid
Will This Time be Different? Past Health Bills Hold Clues
Working Groups
Penn LDI’s working groups convene researchers with common interests to build collaborations and catalyze new activities.
Our Experts
Over 500 LDI Fellows from across the University of Pennsylvania are part of the Penn LDI community.
Frank T. Leone, MD, MS
- Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS
- Professor, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, and Pediatrics , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Computer and Information Science, Bioengineering , School of Engineering and Applied Science
Jordan Stone, MD
- Fellow, Maternal-Fetal Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Ari Friedman, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Lynne Moronski, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research , Penn Nursing
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Law , Carey Law School
Anna Costello, MD
- Fellow, Pediatric Rheumatology , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Carolyn H. Asbury, ScMPH, PhD
- Former Senior Consultant, The Dana Foundation