Bringing essential partners together to transform care in high-priority areas

We leverage our core capabilities to design, implement, and evaluate health care interventions across a variety of important health care topics. Much of our recent work is focused in the following areas:

• Persistent pain & opioids, including embedding Integrated Pain Management in primary care and sharing resources from the Six Building Blocks program.
• Social health, including leading the Kaiser Permanente's Social Needs Network for Evaluation and Translation (SONNET) and supporting universal screening for social health in Kaiser Permanente and federally qualified health centers.
• Patient & family engagement, including co-creating programs and resources with patient partners and creating tools to support patients in self-management support. 

Our work in these areas reflects our commitment to addressing health care’s most pressing challenges in an equitable, evidence-based way. We do this by bringing together patients, clinicians, care delivery leaders, researchers, and community-based organizations to co-design practical approaches to care transformation.

Persistent pain & opioids

Developing whole-person approaches to pain that combat stigma

Social health

Understanding patients' social health needs and how health systems can help meet them

Patient & family engagement

Partnering with patients to find patient-centered, equitable ways to improve care