Participate in this Program: What's Involved?

To be eligible for participating in this the research program, you need to be a member of Kaiser Permanente in the Northern California region and be 18 years of age or older. Participation in the program requires three steps:

• Reviewing and signing a consent form, which ensures that you understand what it means to participate in the research program.
• Providing a blood or saliva sample. We will extract DNA from your sample and, when it is needed for a research project on a specific disease or condition, we will assess your DNA for genetic information.
• Taking a health survey, which asks for information on your health, your environment, and health-related behaviors that may affect a person’s health (such as smoking and diet).

Once you have completed these steps, information about you will be combined with information from your Kaiser Permanente electronic medical record and joined with information of hundreds of thousands of other Kaiser Permanente members who have chosen to participate in the research program. All of this information will be stored with survey data and information on health conditions. Scientists will use this information to study the interactions between genes and environment in affecting various health outcomes.

To start, all you need to do is read, sign, and return a consent form. Any questions?  Call us anytime at 1-866-369-2157 or e-mail us now at rpgeh@kp.org.