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2022 annual report
A commitment to improve health and health care for all.
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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.
Live Healthy
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
Using texting, stories to increase screening for colorectal cancer
Addressing barriers can help more people complete screenings on time.
New findings
Simpler models to identify suicide risk perform similarly to more complex ones
Models that are easier to explain and use could have better uptake in health care settings.
Healthy findings blog
For Women's History Month: Q&A with scientific leaders
KPWHRI’s executive director and scientific division leaders share their career paths, advice.
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.