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2022 highlights
From cardiovascular health to cancer screening, these are the research stories that made headlines over the last year.
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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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Practical findings for everyone's health.
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Health Research Institute
We discover ways to prevent illness and improve treatment.
We're making health and health care better for everyone.
Research
Asking about firearm access can normalize and support dialogue for patients
Findings provide roadmap for addressing barriers and improving suicide prevention.
Research to practice
Helping more patients get screened for cervical cancer
Research on at-home testing for HPV could improve cancer prevention and ease screening for patients.
New findings
Overcoming undervaccination
Clarissa Hsu, PhD, and colleagues asked parents why they decline or delay vaccinating their children to explore ways to overcome barriers to getting vaccinated.
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.