Promoting Health Equity

We believe that every person deserves an equal opportunity to be healthy and safe. Health equity guides all of our work.

Advancing Prevention

We work with communities, organizations, government, and philanthropy to design comprehensive primary prevention strategies in several Focus Areas.

Our Tools and Services help strengthen community environments, so all people can be healthy and safe.

See our featured work

Op-ed: How California can make the vaccine distribution system more equitable

New toolkit: Preventing trauma and suicide during catastrophic events and beyond

Spotlight

Prevention Institute's 2020 Accomplishments

New toolkit: Making Connections Backpack

Prevention Institute mourns the loss of Stephany Bryan

Toolkit: The Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building Advocacy Toolkit

New podcast: Policy priorities for the Biden/Harris Administration

Brief: Four Shifts to Heal Communities: Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice in Land Use Planning and the Built Environment

Prevention Institute welcomes new board members from Houston and Cleveland

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

Webinar Recording: Promoting Connectedness For Trauma and Suicide Prevention

Webinar recording: Safer Communities Through Racial Justice: Coordinated Virtual Action

Webinar recording: Preventing Trauma and Youth Suicide During COVID-19 and Beyond

Podcast: Six Months into the Pandemic: What’s working and what do we still desperately need to do?

Video: If you want to talk health, you have to talk racial justice

Learn more about our tool Tools and services Services to support your work in these Focus Areas.

BLOG February 26, 2021

PI's Media Digest: 10 US cities that will spend more on police than public health in 2021; how community health providers can support equitable vaccine rollout

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