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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.
Research
Can preventing hearing loss reduce dementia risk?
New research from Linda McEvoy, PhD, helps explain how hearing loss affects the brain.
Research
A simple solution to help catch cervical cancer early
Research finds that mailing HPV test kits directly to patients increases cervical cancer screening rates.
Healthy findings blog
HIV/AIDS research advances through Pamela Shaw's work
Shaw's project to reduce the impact of errors in data was just honored with an NIH MERIT award.
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.