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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.
Tests Can Now Predict Disease Like Alzheimer’s. What Can Go Wrong?
U.S. Laws Leave Gaps That May Cost People Jobs, Health Insurance, and Privacy
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
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.
M. Elle Saine, MD, PhD, MA
- Clinical Fellow, Infectious Diseases , Perelman School of Medicine
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmacoepidemiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Lindsey Fernandez, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioengineering , School of Engineering and Applied Science
Eric T. Roberts, PhD
- Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Alexandra Casison, MPH
- PhD Student, Demography , School of Arts and Sciences
- MA Student, Statistics and Data Science , Wharton School
Eleanor Turi, PhD, RN
- Research Associate, Department of Family & Community Health , Penn Nursing
Andy Tan, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Communication , Annenberg School for Communication
Frank T. Leone, MD, MS
- Professor, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Robert A. Aronowitz, MD
- Professor and Chair, History and Sociology of Science , School of Arts and Sciences
- Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor, Social Sciences , 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.
