The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy’s mission is to shape policy and practice with evidence and experience from the nation’s largest private integrated health care delivery and financing organization.
Founded in 1999, the Institute draws on experts from a variety of backgrounds – physicians and other health care providers, clinical and health services researchers, public health professionals, economists, policy analysts, and communications experts.
What We Do
Foster Partnership
We build and manage relationships with thought leaders across our spheres of influence
Inform Policy
We inform current and emerging health policy priorities
Facilitate Conversation
We spark discourse and collaboration among leaders in the field
How We Do It
Engage
We leverage experts from a variety of backgrounds to explore public policies that cultivate healthy communities and accessible high-quality care
Analyze and Communicate
We conduct policy analyses to advance concepts of understanding of complex concepts, and share findings broadly
Convene
We host and sponsor in-person and virtual forums, including engaging on social media through webinars
Our work may complement, but does not include, lobbying, direct advocacy, regulatory relations or issues management
