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

Prevention Institute welcomes new board members from Houston and Cleveland

Webinar Series: Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building

Spotlight

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

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?

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

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

New op-ed: Health and Equity Are On the Ballot With Prop. 15

Op-ed: Are Cities Willing To Cut Police Spending And Invest In Community Violence Prevention?

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.

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

BLOG November 13, 2020

PI's Media Digest: Investigating the top-20 carbon polluters, and former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on loneliness as a public health epidemic

"Ever since #COVID19 arrived on the Navajo Nation, women in this matriarchal society have put themselves at risk, t… t.co/NFDrde7FsU

The #HOPEData interactive website is live! The HOPE initiative tracks 27 social determinants of health and health o… t.co/o7u25peXd3

New web conference on Dec 3! Engagement as a process and strategy: Strengthening connections and leadership opportu… t.co/atUXCdpwo8

"Okay, fine. I do have an agenda. I want disease transmission to go down. I want to keep this community safe. I wan… t.co/HDp3GNiFIP

“We have no more excuse for decision-makers to think of parks as niceties. Parks and green spaces are essential com… t.co/OYHPCU8VaP