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

New article: Are Cities Willing To Cut Police Spending And Invest In Community Violence Prevention?

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

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

Job opportunities: Program assistant, program coordinator, program manager

Journal article: Applying a Social Determinants of Health Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

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

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

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BLOG September 25, 2020

PI's Media Digest: 200,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in US, hunger in the Bay Area

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