In my day job, I work in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), a research center within the University of Pennsylvania. I cover events related to the science of health services research (HSR), a discipline that analyzes how the U.S. healthcare system is organized, financed, managed and quality controlled. The more than 400 scientists connected to LDI document the many things that don’t work well in the current U.S. healthcare system. As of January, 2020, their work has been dramatically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; many are now focused on studying and explaining what coronavirus means to the U.S. health care system in the short and long run. Here are some of my recent photo, video and text stories about these scientists and their work over the last three years.
Inside the Pandemic's Health Provider Financial Crisis: Experts Detail Fiscal Disruption and Uncertain Future
Parsing the History and Health Effects of Structural Racism: Virtual Seminar Connects Past and Present in Search for Solutions
NYTimes Spotlights Professor Dennis Culhane's Homelessness Research
Five LDI Senior Fellows Among 65 Top Health Experts in Letter Cautioning Pfizer CEO Against Vaccine Approval Rush
Health Care Reform in the Age of Partisan Deadlock and Tribal Politics
Penn's Urban Health Lab Reinvents Itself to Focus on Structural Racism in Health Care
New Penn Initiative to Dismantle Racism in U.S. Health Care
Pandemic be Damned. 2020 LDI Fall Kickoff Convenes With Tuxedoed MC and Spotlights
The Unique Pandemic Challenges Faced by Immunocompromised Individuals
Despite Pandemic Political Rhetoric, Pennsylvanians Trust Medical Authorities
Penn Plays Key Role in Greece's COVID-19 Reponse With Risk Algorithm
Is The Threat of COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Getting Enough Attention?
Police Violence, Structural Racism and the Science of Reform
How COVID-19 Disrupts the National Health Insurance Industry
Already in Fiscal Crisis, Rural Hospitals Face COVID-19
COVID-19 Boosts Deployment of Technology-Enabled Remote Health Care Delivery Systems
Model Simulations Point to Key Concerns for Reopening the Economy
COVID-19 Meets the Opioid Crisis, Creating Disruptions and Opportunities
Inside the Pandemic's Most Deadly Targets: Nursing Homes
Vulnerable Communities Emerge as Worst Hit by COVID-19
The Intersecting Health Disasters of the Pandemic and Its Economic Meltdown
First Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Tackles COVID-19 Conundrums
Modeling the Deaths vs. Jobs Tradeoffs of COVID Lockdown Policy Options
Photo Report: Medicare for All and Beyond Conference at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia City/Penn Collaboration Expands Use of Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments
Photo Report From Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics' Health Policy Retreat 2020
CDC Minority Health Chief Keynotes Penn MLK Health Equity Symposium
What Europe Tells Us About Why We Haven't Fixed U.S. Health Inequities
Penn Hosts Fourth Annual Meeting of the Population Health Science Workshop
Report From National Clinician Scholars Program's Annual Meeting, 2019
The Rising Power of Administrative Data for Health Services Research Scientists
