Vaccines save lives by protecting people against infectious diseases—polio, influenza, and malaria to name a few. Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) is working to protect communities through research to continually improve the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and other treatments for infectious diseases as well as cancer. We also test new vaccines that may stop the threat of emerging diseases such as the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which causes COVID-19.
Our research projects on vaccines and infectious diseases include:
Successes over 3 decades of KPWHRI research on vaccines and preventing and treating infectious disease include:
Kim SS, Flannery B, Foppa IM, Chung JR, Nowalk MP, Zimmerman RK, Gaglani M, Monto AS, Martin ET, Belongia EA, McLean HQ, Jackson ML, Jackson LA, Patel M. Effects of prior season vaccination on current season vaccine effectiveness in the US Flu VE Network, 2012-13 through 2017-18. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 7:ciaa706. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa706. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Chubak J, Anderson ML, Cook AJ, Murphy CC, Jackson ML, Green BB. Methodological considerations in calculating and analyzing proportion of time covered as a measure of longitudinal cancer screening adherence. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 May 28:cebp.0388.2020. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0388. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Lewnard JA, Liu VX, Jackson ML, Schmidt MA, Jewell BL, Flores JP, Jentz C, Northrup GR, Mahmud A, Reingold AL, Petersen M, Jewell NP, Young S, Bellows J. Incidence, clinical outcomes, and transmission dynamics of severe coronavirus disease 2019 in California and Washington: prospective cohort study. BMJ. 2020 May 22;369:m1923. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m1923. PubMed
Weinmann S, Irving SA, Koppolu P, Naleway AL, Belongia EA, Hambidge SJ, Jackson ML, Klein NP, Lewin B, Liles E, Marin M, Smith N, Weintraub E, Chun C. Incidence of herpes zoster among varicella-vaccinated children, by number of vaccine doses and simultaneous administration of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. Vaccine. 2020 May 19. pii: S0264-410X(20)30612-5. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.05.006. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Chung JR, Flannery B, Gaglani M, Smith ME, Reis EC, Hickey RW, Jackson ML, Jackson LA, Belongia EA, McLean HQ, Martin ET, Segaloff HE, Kim SS, Patel MM. Patterns of influenza vaccination and vaccine effectiveness among young US children who receive outpatient care for acute respiratory tract illness. JAMA Pediatr. 2020 May 4:e200372. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0372. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
![]() Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPHSenior Investigator |
![]() Jennifer C. Nelson, PhDDirector of Biostatistics; Senior Investigator |
![]() Michael L. Jackson, PhD, MPHSenior Investigator |
![]() Andrea J. Cook, PhDSenior Investigator |
![]() Sascha Dublin, MD, PhDSenior Investigator |
![]() Onchee Yu, MSBiostatistician III |
![]() Robert D. Wellman, MSBiostatistician III |
Doug Opel, MD, MPH
University of Washington (UW) Department of Bioethics and Humanities; UW Department of Pediatrics; UW Medical Center
John Dunn, MD, MPH
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington
Elizabeth Lin, MD, MPH
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Family Practice;
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute