Promoting Health Equity and Racial Justice

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

Intersections Initiative

Report: Investing in Equity: Designing and Implementing Public Funding Programs for a Just Recovery in California

Spotlight

Op-ed: "What is Park Equity?"

Investing in Communities and Futures that are Safe

Report: Centering Equity & Justice in Rebuilding the Nation’s Public Health Infrastructure

Cultivating a Healthier Policy Landscape: The Building Healthy Communities Initiative

National initiative: People, Parks, and Power

Video Series: Built Environment Policy Advocates Winning in LA County

Blog: The economy we need centers community health & racial justice

Prevention Institute at the 2022 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting

Webinar: The Promise of Cost of Gun Violence Studies in California

Webinar: Lessons Along the Journey—Taking Action Toward Racial Justice in Public Health Systems

50+ public health and health groups call for an investment of at least $268 million in Community Violence Intervention Initiative at CDC

Report: How California’s Community-Based Organizations Filled the Gaps for Underserved Communities

Prevention Institute receives generous grant from MacKenzie Scott

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

BLOG February 8, 2022

The economy we need centers community health & racial justice