• Our History and Impacts

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  • 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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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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ACT Study contributes to understanding Alzheimer’s disease in brain cells

Mapping the disease at the cellular level identifies possible new treatment targets.

Healthy findings blog

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Accelerating qualitative research with Rap-GAP

Clarissa Hsu and Jess Mogk share a new way to fast-track insights from qualitative data.

Healthy findings blog

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Reframing how we speak about dying

In a recently published blog based on her legacy research, Marlaine Figueroa Gray describes how to talk about death.


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.