Nora Henrikson, PhD, MPH

Nora Henrikson

"I believe that our members are the key to helping us know how to deliver the best care possible."

Nora Henrikson, PhD, MPH

Associate Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Associate Professor, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Department of Health Systems Science
Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Population Health, and Institute for Public Health Genetics

Biography

Nora Henrikson (she/her) is an associate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. She leads a research portfolio focused on interventions to improve cancer care delivery, health equity, and patient outcomes.

Her current research explores methods for improving risk notification and cascading genetic testing for family members of people with hereditary cancers as well as interventions to mitigate cancer-related financial hardship. Dr. Henrikson also leads systematic evidence reviews on cancer screening and behavioral counseling with the Kaiser Permanente Evidence-based Practice Center.  

Dr. Henrikson holds affiliate faculty appointments at the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, and the Institute for Public Health Genetics. She is also an associate professor at the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.

She has a PhD from the University of Washington School of Public Health’s Institute for Public Health Genetics, an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA (sociology) from Lehigh University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Cancer

    Genetic testing for cancer risk, cancer-related financial hardship

  • Social Determinants of Health

    Financial hardship, health equity

  • Health Services & Economics

    Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods; intervention design; implementation science

  • Preventive Medicine

  • Evidence-Based Practice

    Systematic review and evidence synthesis; epidemiology

  • Public Health Genetics

    Social, ethical, and policy implications of genomics and precision health

Recent publications

Opel DJ, Henrikson N, Lepere K, Hawkes R, Zhou C, Dunn J, Taylor JA. Previsit screening for parental vaccine hesitancy: a cluster randomized trial.  Pediatrics. 2019 Nov;144(5). pii: e20190802. doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-0802. Epub 2019 Oct 9. PubMed

Henrikson NB, Aiello Bowles EJ, Blasi PR, Morrison CC, Nguyen M, Pillarisetty VG, Lin JS. Screening for pancreatic cancer: updated evidence report and systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. JAMA. 2019;322(5):445-454. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.6190.  PubMed

Beck J, Wignall J, Jacob-Files E, Tchou MJ, Schroeder A, Henrikson NB, Desai AD. Parent attitudes and preferences for discussing health care costs in the inpatient setting. Pediatrics. 2019 Aug;144(2). pii: e20184029. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-4029. Epub 2019 Jul 3. PubMed

Henrikson NB, Blasi PR, Corsmo JJ, Sheffer Serdoz E, Scrol A, Greene SM, Matthews TL, Ralston JD. "You really do have to know the local context": IRB administrators and researchers on the implications of the NIH Single IRB mandate for multisite genomic studies. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2019 Jul;14(3):286-295. doi: 10.1177/1556264619850440. Epub 2019 May 22. PubMed

Henrikson NB, Banegas MP, Tuzzio L, Lim C, Schneider JL, Walsh-Bailey C, Scrol A, Hodge SM. Workflow requirements for cost-of-care conversations in outpatient settings providing oncology or primary care: a qualitative, human-centered design study.  Ann Intern Med. 2019;170(9_Supplement):S70-S78. doi: 10.7326/M18-2227.  PubMed

Henrikson NB, Blasi PR, Fullerton SM, Grafton J, Leppig KA, Jarvik GP, Larson EB. "It would be so much easier": health system-led genetic risk notification-feasibility and acceptability of cascade screening in an integrated system. J Community Genet. 2019 Mar 6. pii: 10.1007/s12687-019-00412-z. doi: 10.1007/s12687-019-00412-z. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Eller NM, Henrikson NB, Opel DJ. Vaccine information sources and parental trust in their child's health care provider.  Health Educ Behav. 2019 Jun;46(3):445-453. doi: 10.1177/1090198118819716. Epub 2019 Jan 7. PubMed

Jones SMW, Du Y, Panattoni L, Henrikson NB. Assessing Worry About Affording Healthcare in a General Population Sample.  Front Psychol. 2019 Nov 22;10:2622. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02622. eCollection 2019.  PubMed

Pisu M, Henrikson NB, Banegas MP, Yabroff R. Costs of cancer along the care continuum: what we can expect based on recent literature. Cancer. 2018 Nov 1;124(21):4181-4191. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31643. Epub 2018 Oct 17. PubMed

Henrikson NB, Zhu W, Baba L, Nguyen M, Berthoud H, Gundersen G, Hofstetter AM. Outreach and reminders to improve human papillomavirus vaccination in an integrated primary care system.  Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2018 Nov;57(13):1523-1531. doi: 10.1177/0009922818787868. Epub 2018 Jul 13. PubMed

 

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Discussing patients’ concerns about cost of care

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