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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
LDI generates critical evidence to improve U.S. health care delivery, patient care, and health policy.
What Would It Take to Make Clinical Trials More Diverse?
Penn LDI Researchers Tested a Simple Approach to a Long-Standing Problem
Jaya Aysola’s Remarks from UN Panel on Health Care for the Disabled
LDI Senior Fellow Calls for a Major Upgrade in Best Practices
States Weigh in on Trump Administration’s Medicaid Fraud Push
LDI/Tradeoffs Virtual Seminar Explores the New Federal Actions and Why Fraud is Hard to Measure
Pregnancy Can Turn Deadly Before Prenatal Care Begins
LDI Fellow and OB-GYN Calls for Faster Testing and Better Early-Pregnancy Care
From Secret Health Care Prices to Too Much Information
Why a 2020 Federal Price Transparency Initiative has yet to Produce a Consumer Shopping Revolution
Upcoming Events
Hybrid Event
Health Policy Research Seminar with Daniel Ollendorf, PhD, MPH
At the Intersection of Access and Affordability: A Brief, Tortured History of Health Technology Assessment and the Current Role of ICER
Hybrid Event
The Unfinished Business of Reforming the FDA’s Accelerated Approval Pathway
A Conversation with Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD, Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, and Dan Ollendorf, PhD, MPH
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.
Mary Naylor, PhD, RN
- Marian S. Ware Professor, Gerontology , Penn Nursing
- Director, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Hoangmai Pham, MD, MPH
- President and CEO, Institute for Exceptional Care
Diondra Straiton, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry/Center for Mental Health , Perelman School of Medicine
Beth Linker, PhD, MBE
- Professor, History and Sociology of Science , School of Arts and Sciences
- Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Andrea Apter, MD, MA
- Professor Emerita, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Kevin Mahoney, MBA
- Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System , Perelman School of Medicine
Hans-Peter Kohler, PhD
- Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography , School of Arts and Sciences
- Co-Director, Population Aging and Research Center (PARC)
Kent Smetters, PhD
- Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy , Wharton School
- Professor, Applied Math and Computational Science , School of Arts and Sciences
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
$179M+
Awarded in External Grant Funding
12,100+
Journal Articles Published (2021–2025)
$622K+
Awarded in Research Grants from LDI
Our Impact
Penn LDI’s success stems from creating multidisciplinary solutions to our nation’s most pressing health care problems. Explore 20 stories about the transformative power of our institute.
