Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) is the center of the University of Pennsylvania's activities and programs in health services research, health policy, and health care management executive education. A formal cooperative venture among Penn's schools of medicine, business, nursing, communication, and dental medicine, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, LDI works to improve the health of the public through multidisciplinary studies on the medical, economic, social, and ethical issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed, and delivered. LDI represents one of the earliest efforts to promote collaborative scholarship in health care through formal partnerships within the same university among the clinical, management, and social sciences. For more information, visit www.upenn.edu/ldi.

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Programs
The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (RWJ CSP) at Penn offers a two- to three-year, masters-level interdisciplinary training program, guided by strong mentorship and informed by community-based research to enable scholars to improve health and healthcare in community settings. An overarching goal of the program is for scholars to partner with private and public sector organizations to become a new type of clinical physician-investigator, rigorously trained in health services research and related disciplines (clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, economics, health communications) and prepared to effectively translate and implement research into policy and practice which meets the needs of the community and advances health care and the health of the public. Primary areas of the masters training program include research skills, health policy, health-related social sciences and professional development. Clinical scholars at Penn will have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty from such Penn institutions as: The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Wharton School, the Annenberg School for Communication, the Schools of Nursing, Law, Social Work, Education, and Arts and Sciences, as well as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. For more information, visit www.med.upenn.edu/rwjcsp.

Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program (RWJ HSSP)at the University of Pennsylvania aims to develop leaders who will produce significant scholarship, design interventions, and build the infrastructure and prestige of a new field focused on the multiple determinants of health.
Penn's program is based on an eclectic and expansive vision of the kinds of knowledge and actions that are needed to improve the nation's health. Over 50 core faculty are drawn from Penn's schools of medicine, arts and sciences, communication (Annenberg), business (Wharton), social work, fine arts, nursing, and law. Penn's history of interdisciplinary collaboration, location in Philadelphia and compact campus facilitate a unique interdisciplinary atmosphere for conducting research and training new leaders. The diverse core faculty collaborate on projects such as those that: explore aspects of health inequalities, race relations/ethnicity, nutrition, and effects of the built environment; involve novel applications of multi-level modeling and spatial analysis to understand the complex interplay of factors that produce health; and design and test interventions at the community, mass media and social policy level. Developing scholars' capacity for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, research is the major focus of the program. Scholars acquire new skills, span disciplinary boundaries and launch innovative scholarly programs of their own design. From recruitment on, scholars are linked with mentors who will provide guidance and serve as advocates for their interests and careers. Scholars take part in a common curriculum and also formulate an individualized learning plan that takes advantage of the program's core faculty and courses and other learning opportunities in Penn's many departments and centers. For more information, visit www.upenn.edu/rwjhssp/.