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.

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New paper: Building Bridges: The Strategic Imperative for Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice

New job opportunities: Program assistant, program coordinator, program manager

Spotlight

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

New op-ed: Cannabis Tax Revenues Are Going to Police Budgets, Not Communities

Podcast: Applying a racial justice lens to mental health and wellbeing

End Racism. Our Lives Depend on It.

Podcast: Ending violence by the police and in the community: calls to action for justice and peace

‘Divest from police’ and invest in policies that take a different approach to public safety

Blog: Communities build strengths, assets, and resilience into their pandemic response

Op-ed: Bankruptcy and privatization will not lead us to recovery

Op-ed: Society Designed the Systems That Created COVID-19 Inequalities — We Can Redesign Them

Podcast: Cities respond to COVID-19

Video: MC:ID How We’re Staying Connected

Op ed: Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19.

Preventing violence in our homes: Meeting this moment with connection, care, and justice

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

BLOG August 7, 2020

PI's Media Digest: NY AG seeks to dissolve NRA, new research on racial inequities in park size and crowding, voter suppression via "civil death," and tracking administration's environment rollbacks

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: NY AG seeks to dissolve NRA, new research on racial inequities in… t.co/WiKfmIXTqc

Don't miss the early deadline for the APHA annual meeting! It's virtual this year, and we'll definitely see you the… t.co/KC1w4rGC3w

"Around the U.S., cities have been grappling with how single-family zoning can exacerbate racial inequity and clima… t.co/Gmu4JWfyFW

The Great American Outdoors Act was just signed into law! This provides $9 billion to fix the maintenance backlog a… t.co/wwAtJwnG8d

PI joined 200+ groups to support The Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 2020. #COVID19 shows how commun… t.co/6YqXURo42p

Prevention Institute is hiring! We have 3 open positions for a Program Assistant, a Program Coordinator, and a Prog… t.co/KFMD1qt6if

.@NewsHour features @livingschoolyrd, and their National #COVID19 Outdoor Learning Initiative, which teaches school… t.co/QHwf12ZK5l