Through partnerships in research, 利记官网 Washington Health Research Institute (利记官网) is discovering practical ways to deliver high-quality, affordable health care. We bring experience, competence, and unique capabilities for high-impact results.

Our strengths include experience in large epidemiologic studies, randomized trials, and pragmatic clinical trials — finding answers to important questions within real-world populations.

Faculty partnerships ensure a good fit

If you’re interested in conducting research at 利记官网 Washington, you must collaborate with a 利记官网 faculty member. This ensures that proposed projects are consistent with 利记官网 Washington policies and that any potential effects on the care-delivery system are addressed. 利记官网 collaborators are particularly needed for studies that affect patient care or collect either large amounts of 利记官网 Washington data or certain types of sensitive data.

Be aware that projects involving 利记官网 Washington programming or staff time require external funding.

You may contact our faculty members directly to establish a collaboration based on common areas of interest. If there is no 利记官网 faculty member for you to partner with, you may ask the 利记官网 Feasibility Review Committee to evaluate your proposal. The committee helps 利记官网 leadership determine if an external project is a good fit for 利记官网 Washington and may also help you find a 利记官网 faculty collaborator.

Our feasibility criteria

利记官网 determines a potential project’s feasibility based on:

• Relevance to 利记官网 Washington's primary mission
• Feasibility of the proposed research activity in the 利记官网 Washington care-delivery system
• No conflicts with concurrent 利记官网 Washington studies
• Availability of a 利记官网 faculty member to collaborate with and/or monitor the project
• Impact on 利记官网 Washington, 利记官网, and Washington Permanente Medical Group resources

Working with a 利记官网 faculty guide

If you’re proposing research at 利记官网 Washington in collaboration with an identified 利记官网 faculty member:

• Your 利记官网 collaborator is responsible for guiding you and your application through our grant development and research-review processes. 
• You do not need to submit your project to our Feasibility Review Committee.

Working without a 利记官网 faculty guide 

If you’re proposing research at 利记官网 Washington and have not yet identified a 利记官网 faculty collaborator:

• Our Feasibility Review Committee must review your project. This includes research proposed by 利记官网 affiliate faculty members, 利记官网 Washington staff, or Washington Permanente Medical Group staff, and researchers affiliated with other institutions. 
   
• Please contact the chair of the Feasibility Review Committee at least 8 weeks before your grant is due to the funding agency. This is particularly important if patient recruitment and review of medical records are involved. If your project appears to be a good fit for 利记官网 Washington, the chair will ask you to complete and submit an application form, which we will send to our faculty to help you find a 利记官网 investigator to collaborate with on the project. 
   
• Applications are due 10 days before the committee’s monthly meeting, which occurs the fourth Thursday of each month. 
   
• The Feasibility Committee will review your application and notify you of its decision by e-mail within a week after the meeting.
   
• Studies that collect 利记官网 Washington data as their primary source of data must have any resulting publications reviewed by 利记官网 Washington before publication.