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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.
News
Seattle's Sweetened Beverage Tax linked to improved public health outcomes
An evaluation with KPWHRI researchers looked at the impacts of the tax so far.
Research
Latino families inform training for caregivers of people with dementia
Maggie Ramirez, PhD, and Robert Penfold, PhD, culturally adapt an online program.
Healthy findings blog
How do you make sense of a mountain of evidence?
KPWHRI researchers answer questions about systematic reviews and their impact on health care guidelines.
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.