How Playing Games May Save People’s Lives
The Growing Use of Gamification in Health Motivates People to Exercise More and Take Other Actions to Improve Their Physical Well-Being
Our Mission
We connect researchers from across the University of Pennsylvania with a common mission: to improve health and health care by catalyzing collaborative, multidisciplinary research that influences policy and practice.
Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
LDI Research Helped Shape Pennsylvania’s New Working Pennsylvanians Tax Credit
Pa.’s New Bipartisan Tax Credit is Designed to be Simple and Refundable – Reflecting Core Points From Penn LDI Researchers Who Briefed State Leaders
Top Dozen 2025 LDI News Stories
Focusing in on Some of Health Care Policy’s Most Urgent Issues
Impact: LDI Fellows Shaped Public Discussion and Public Policy in 2025
Highlighting 10 Ways LDI Fellows Put Their Research Into Action
10 Noteworthy Research Articles from LDI in 2025
From AI-Powered Public Health Messaging to Stark Divides in Child Wellness and Medicaid Access, LDI Experts Highlight Urgent Problems and Compelling Solutions
How Republicans Could Fashion a Practical Option to Obamacare
An LDI Expert Offers Three Recommendations That Address Core Criticisms of the ACA’s Model
Upcoming Events
In-Person Event
Research Seminar with Yashaswini Singh, PhD
Stress Testing Markets for Cardiac Care
Open to Penn Affiliates
Virtual Event
Drug Pricing in Trump 2.0: Where Are We and What’s Ahead?
A Conversation with Avik Roy, Rachel Sachs, JD, MPH, and Marta Wosinska, PhD, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
Our Experts
Our 500+ Fellows are national experts and thought leaders who bridge all of Penn’s schools, the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Carolyn H. Asbury, ScMPH, PhD
- Former Senior Consultant, The Dana Foundation
Joao Victor Antunes Lopes
- PhD Student, Demography , School of Arts and Sciences
Shekinah Fashaw-Walters, PhD, MSPH
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Sang Bin You, MSN, RN
- PhD Student , Penn Nursing
José Bauermeister, PhD, MPH
- Professor, Family & Community Health , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Psychiatry , Perelman School of Medicine
Andrea Schneider, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neurology and Epidemiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Michael Glick, DMD
- Fields-Rayant Endowed Professor, Integrative Global Oral Health , Penn Dental Medicine
- Professor, Clinical Preventive and Restorative Sciences , Penn Dental Medicine
Christina Roberto, PhD
- Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Director, Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
What We Do
As Penn’s hub for health care delivery, health policy, and population health, we connect and amplify over 500 Fellows across the University, and train the next generation of researchers.
Fast Facts
$160M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
11,300+
Journal Articles Published (2020–2024)
$400K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI