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 December 13, 2019

PI's Media Digest: US CBP turns away doctors who wanted to provide flu vaccines to children; the case for free school lunches for all students

In @Medium, @DrGCChristopher highlights how until now, despite detrimental effects on the physical + #mentalhealth… t.co/n3VsTbzmFC

After bringing up PI's 2005 Child #Nutrition Policy (which was not being enforced) to LA city council members, the… t.co/tJQEpr5LXc

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: US CBP turns away doctors who wanted to provide #flu #vaccines to… t.co/AicYP5V3NT

Harmful policies and institutional practices have systematically produced inequities in #health outcomes. Health… t.co/1rAUlQEtv1

PI's Executive Director Rachel Davis at the #DNPAO National Partner Collaboration Meeting @CDCgov @CDCChronic… t.co/JxTpumxU0r

NPR's Morning Edition covers a construction company that has set a new precedent for #SuicidePrevention in an indus… t.co/9QD2gUEG8S