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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
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Practical findings for everyone's health.
Live Healthy
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.
New findings
Updated results from COVID-19 vaccine booster trial
IDCRC study finds rapid decline in vaccine-boosted neutralizing antibodies against Omicron variant BA.5
Research
Dementia risk screening tool shows promise
In a new study, a tool to help discover undiagnosed dementia performed well in 2 separate health systems.
News
New open data to help understand Alzheimer’s
Cell by cell, scientists are building a high-resolution map of brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease.
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.