Children in the United States are dying sooner and are sicker now than they were twenty years ago. Chronic disease is more common.| Penn LDI
AI-powered system from Penn researchers boosts HIV prevention by creating real-time, evidence-based social media messages for hard-to-reach groups.| Penn LDI
Incarcerated patients often miss vital pre- and post-op care. Experts call for systemic reform to improve surgical outcomes for this vulnerable group.| Penn LDI
A Penn Medicine program to train an inaugural cohort of teens to green their neighborhoods completed a month-long curriculum in late July.| Penn LDI
A new NEJM piece written by Atheendar Venkataramani explores how public discussion of policies can impact population health, particularly for marginalized groups.| Penn LDI
A first-ever study co-authored by LDI’s Scott Lorch & led by Michel Boudreaux documented perinatal health care resources in communities prone to wildfire smoke.| Penn LDI
Congressional cuts to SNAP benefits are putting over 1 million Pennsylvania families at risk of hunger. Experts warn the $180 billion reduction will deepen food insecurity, hurt children’s health, and strain state budgets.| Penn LDI
LDI’s Executive Director Rachel M. Werner discusses the impact of OBBBA’s Medicaid cuts on long-term care in Marketplace’s “Make Me Smart” Podcast| Penn LDI
Report from a University of Pennsylvania seminar looking at the contrast between the “War on Drugs,” which devastated Black and Latino communities through mass incarceration, and today’s public health…| Penn LDI
Bachelor’s-prepared nurses are associated with better hospital outcomes, regardless of the educational pathway a nurse takes to get the degree.| Penn LDI
A study finds lack of access to nutritious food is associated with early death among cancer survivors.| Penn LDI
Zeke Emanuel & colleagues evaluated national data from the only public source, Medicare Cost Reports, and found significant shortcomings in the information.| Penn LDI
Founding Director Joanne Levy took the AcademyHealth stage to celebrate SUMR’s 25th anniversary and national award| Penn LDI
The University of Pennsylvania’s Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research (SUMR) program have arrived at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM)| Penn LDI
When a mulithospital system initially buys an independent hospital, efficiency and revenue rise. This is not true when system-owned hospitals get bought.| Penn LDI
Since the Food and Drug Administration first (FDA) began approving commercial applications of CAR-T and CRISPR cell and gene-based therapies (CGT) over the last six years, there has been a growing…| Penn LDI
A 10-week fellowship in the demography and economics of aging and health care for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds.| Penn LDI
Hoag Levins is a journalist, photographer, and digital content producer who joined Penn LDI in 2011.| Penn LDI
Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and Director of Health Equity Research| Penn LDI
Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine,| Penn LDI
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.| Penn LDI
Atul Gupta, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.| Penn LDI
Medicare and Medicaid fail to work together effectively. For the 12.5 million Americans dually enrolled in both programs, navigating a maze of jargon| Penn LDI
CMS has frequently leveraged kidney payment models to test new policies that were subsequently integrated into non-kidney payment models| Penn LDI
Punitive laws, particularly against people who enter the U.S. at the Mexican border, may lead to poor newborn health.| Penn LDI
The federal government wants 80% of kidney disease patients to get dialysis at home| Penn LDI
Penn Medicine’s Shivan Mehta, MD, has received the 2024 Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Distinguished Investigator Award| Penn LDI
