The Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (CHR) has maintained a robust program of public health research since 1964. Most of our funding comes from federal grants and contracts, private foundations, and industry support.
Our research scientists are a highly diverse and skilled group with specialties including medicine, psychology, anthropology, population health, prevention, health economics, and epidemiology. Centralized departments provide the infrastructure and expertise necessary to support our investigators as they write grant proposals, conduct studies, analyze data, and publish their findings.
Our position within the Kaiser Permanente Northwest health care system allows us to conduct studies with real patients and health care providers in real world settings. KP Northwest has more than 600,000 health plan members and 280,000 dental members in Oregon and Southwest Washington. In addition, CHR has strong working partnerships with other Kaiser Permanente research centers around the country, the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, and many other academic institutions, community organizations, and U.S. health systems, including those in the Health Care Systems Research Network.