Sara Handley and Emily Gregory found that parents prioritize newborn care over their own health, with rural parents facing more hospitalizations, acute care visits, and barriers to postpartum care than their urban peers.
Lauren Eberly, Sameed Khatana, and Ashwin Nathan found that age-adjusted cardiovascular mortality is rising among people in state prisons, revealing that 31% didn't receive testing and 27% didn't get treatment before they died.
A study by Norma Coe and David Rosenkranz found that some hospice providers churn patients to undercut Medicare's average annual revenue cap, but with modest impacts on costs.
Accepting proposals for research projects, with budgets up to $175,000, that will have a meaningful and measurable impact on value-based primary care and other alternative delivery models focused on older adults. Application Deadline: November 10, 2025
Accepting proposals, with budgets up to $65,000, that improve the effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and experience of care delivery at Penn Medicine, with a special focus on how generative AI can optimize health care delivery. Application Deadline: November 10, 2025
Accepting proposals for small research grants, with budgets up to $40,000, focused on expanding access to health insurance and health care. The goal of this RFP is to expand research activity and expertise at Penn focused in this area. Application Deadline: November 10, 2025
A Conversation with Carrie Cochran-McClain, DrPH, Lisa Davis, MHA, and Laura Dimino, PhD. Moderated by Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP.
Virtual seminar open to LDI Fellows only.
$1 MILLION MATCHING CHALLENGE
Penn LDI's$1 Million Matching Challengeto support the Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research (SUMR) Program and LDI initiatives aimed at increasing population access to health insurance and health care closes on September 30. Your gift helps empower the next generation of researchers.
“Pa. Disability Advocates and Long-Term Care Facilities are Bracing for the Ripple Effects of Impending Medicaid Cuts.” Rachel M. Werner. WHYY
“‘The Chaos in the Point:’ Tumult as Covid Vaccine Boosters Deployed Under RFK Jr.” Julia Lynch.The Guardian
“Is It ‘Inevitable’ That Men Die More Than Five Years Earlier Than Women?” Derek Griffith.STAT News
“CDC's No-Bid Contract on Vaccine-Austim Study Raises Alarm.” David Mandell.MedPage Today
“A Financial Experiment in Pennsylvania Showed How Hard it is to Stabilize Rural Hospitals.” Paula Chatterjee. Philadelphia Inquirer
PUBLICATIONS
“The Complexity of Dementia Care–Progress, Pitfalls, and a Path Forward.” Laura N. Gitlin, Nancy A. Hodgson.JAMA Internal Medicine
“An Antiracist Approach to Firearm Injury Prevention Screening and Safety Counseling.” Vivek Ashok, Ruth Abaya, Aditi Vasan. Pediatrics
“Behavioral Economic Framing for Enrollment and Retention of Patients in Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring: A Randomized Clinical Trial.” Shivan J. Mehta, Joseph Teel, Evelyn Okorie, Catherine Reitz, Alison Purcell, Christopher K. Snider, Kayla Clark, Rebecca C. Kersting, Karen Glanz, Mary Putt, Charles Rareshide, Kevin G. Volpp.JAMA Network Open
“Donor-Derived Epstein-Barr Virus Infection Among Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients.” Vishnu S. Potluri, Sandra Amaral, Chethan M. Puttarajappa, Siqi Zhang, Kaitlin J. Devine, Peter P. Reese, Elizabeth M. Sonnenberg.JAMA
“Automated Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Parents in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial.” Emara Nabi-Burza, Brian P. Jenssen, Abra M. Jeffers, Janani Ramachandran, Jeritt G. Thayer, Bethany Hipple, Douglas E. Levy, Robert W. Grundmeier, Olivier Drouin, Mark Vangel, Nancy A. Rigotti, Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Ekaterina Nekrasova, Madeline McKnight, Jonathan P. Winickoff, & Alexander G. Fiks. JAMA Network Open
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