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Evidence-Driven Approaches to Preventing Firearm Deaths
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Our Mission
Penn LDI is dedicated to improving health and health care by catalyzing collaborative, multidisciplinary research that influences policy and practice.
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.
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Featured Research Updates
Our work addresses some of the most pressing health and health care challenges facing our nation today.
Health Care Algorithms Can Improve or Worsen Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Users Need To Understand Existing Disparities and Why Race Can Be Imprecise
Exploring the Policies That Are Closing Rural Hospitals
A Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Looks at Trends Driving the Crisis
4 Ways Health Officials Can Communicate Better in the Next Pandemic
COVID-19’s Key Challenges Provide Insight for Future Outbreaks
Future Bundled Payment Models Need To Engage Physician Group Practices
Looking Forward, LDI Fellows Offer Their Perspectives and Expertise
Fixing Medicare’s Problem of Inadequately Coordinated Care
Penn LDI’s Amol Navathe Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Medicaid’s New Policy Boosts Street Medicine in the U.S.
But More Funding and Better Rules Are Needed to Help People Who Are Addicted or Homeless, LDI Experts Say
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.
Sharath Chandra Guntuku, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Christina A. Roberto, PhD
- Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
Sandra (Sandi) Amaral, MD, MHS
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine
Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD
- Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts and Sciences
Colin Adamo, PhD
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
Meredith Matone, DrPH, MHS
- Research Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Sharon Y. Irving, PhD
- Associate Professor, Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
Tyler Rainer, MD
- Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- MSHP + HQS Student, Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety (PennCHIPS), Perelman School of Medicine
Fast Facts
$142 Million
In Research Grants Given Annually to Senior Fellows
141,957
Senior Fellow Journal Citations in 2018–2022
9,721
Articles Published by Senior Fellows in 2022