• Our Mission

    KPWHRI improves health, well-being, and health equity for our members and all communities through collaborative research and evaluation.

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  • Our Research

    Discovering what works best for health and health care.

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    Read about our latest news and findings.

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  • Live Healthy

    Practical findings for everyone's health.

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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

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Can preventing hearing loss reduce dementia risk?

New research from Linda McEvoy, PhD, helps explain how hearing loss affects the brain.

Research

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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

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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.