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Our top 10 highlights
From vaccines to health equity, these are the research stories that made headlines in 2021.
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KPWHRI improves health, well-being, and health equity for our members and all communities through collaborative research and evaluation.
Our Mission
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Discovering what works best for health and health care.
Our Research
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Read about our latest news and findings.
News and Events
Welcome to Kaiser Permanente Washington
Health Research Institute
We discover ways to prevent illness and improve treatment.
We're making health and health care better for everyone.
preventive care
Exploring at-home cervical cancer screening
Kaiser Permanente is at the forefront of research looking at using home tests for HPV, a leading cause of cervical cancer.
COVID-19 vaccines
Trial confirms safety of mix-and-match COVID-19 booster
Lisa Jackson, MD, MPH, explains results support boosting with Moderna, Pfizer, or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Suicide prevention
‘Do you have access to guns?’ Answers before suicide death
A new study shows an opportunity to better identify patients at risk.
Our research
We study health and health care as it happens in everyday settings by everyday people, producing results that are built to work in the real world. We share our results in the public domain to benefit people everywhere.
Land Acknowledgment
Our Seattle offices sit on the occupied land of the Duwamish and by the shared waters of the Coast Salish people, who have been here thousands of years and remain. Learn about practicing land acknowledgment.