The Center for Health Research Southeast

The Center for Health Research expanded to the Southeast in 2006, continuing the 10-year agenda of innovative public domain research in Kaiser Permanente’s Georgia (KPG) region. CHR Southeast (CHR-SE) is based in Atlanta, Georgia. It engages in research on health services and chronic disease prevention and epidemiology that is especially attuned to the health issues of the local population. CHR-SE also conducts clinical trials of vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

CHR-SE receives its funding from federal agencies, state agencies, private foundations, and private companies. CHR-SE has established scientific collaborations with a variety of research communities and consortia. This includes associations such as The Cancer Research Network (CRN), The Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT) and The Coordinated Clinical Studies Network (CCSN).

The membership of KPG has a racial and socioeconomic distribution that is similar to the surrounding metropolitan Atlanta region: about 50% Caucasian, 45% African American, 4% Hispanic, and 1% other races. 90% of the KPG membership receives primary care at 12 medical offices owned and operated by KPG. KPG also provides primary care through contracts with 125 community practices.