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

Podcast: What Medellín can teach use about healthy and equitable land use

Blog: From McKinleyville to San Diego, five communities redefine intimate partner violence prevention

Spotlight

Video: Prevention Institute: Partnering to achieve thriving, equitable communities

Rachel A. Davis of Prevention Institute wins the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence

Op-ed: Opioid Settlement Funds Must Go Where They’re Needed Most—Treatment and Prevention

How communities working on mental health for men and boys build and sustain momentum

New Blog: From Emergencies To Equity: The Growing Role Of Hospitals In Community Health

New initiative: Visualizing and Powering Healthy Lives: Connecting parks to life expectancy in LA County

New podcast: How healthcare is partnering to improve community health

Book chapter: Addressing Community Trauma and Building Community Resilience to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Addiction

Op ed: The effects of housing discrimination on health can reverberate for decades

Blog: Overcoming Guns, Racism, And Hatred

Blog: Informal Gathering Spaces for Healing Community Trauma

East San Jose PEACE Partnership uses community strengths to counteract violence and trauma.

Commentary: A System of Prevention: Applying a Systems Approach to Public Health

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

BLOG November 22, 2019

PI's Media Digest: St Paul mayor proposes public-safety plan, water access in tribal communities, and counteracting ACEs

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: St Paul mayor proposes public-safety plan, water access in tribal… t.co/2nUrW8DJF5

As a response to the increasing gun violence in St. Paul - 29 people have been killed this year - Mayor Melvin Cart… t.co/swRFs2RMzT

Prevention Institute is hiring! We are seeking two Program Coordinators to join our national, nonprofit organizatio… t.co/yJuxRRIDdj

200,000 Americans die from #airpollution each year, but the current #EPA is unlikely to change air regulations to r… t.co/446nVFZLOS

How can we further the conversation on #ACEs? We all have a role to play, there are specific contributions our sect… t.co/7O50tTuQhD

Tomorrow catch PI's Ruben Cantu and Abdiweli Haji from @UWEast giving a workshop about our Making Connections initi… t.co/ga6uSUHJqZ

New short video! See how two #communities Prevention Institute has worked with have brought together community memb… t.co/8ALpNTMXL9

Adverse Childhood Experiences are common in communities with systemic racism, historical trauma, unemployment, and… t.co/B7R7gvgNdz