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 podcast: Coronavirus: from the urgency of reaction to the importance of long-term action

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New article: Stormwater Management is an Equity Issue

New policy brief: Healing LA Neighborhoods

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

Featured initiative: Built Environment Policy Advocacy Fund

New op-ed: Screenings Alone Won’t Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences—We Must Address Community Trauma

New blog: Want to prevent violence? Go green.

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

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

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

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

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BLOG March 27, 2020

Radical inequality requires unequal sacrifices for common good in pandemic; politicization of COVID-19 response complicates public health models

his month, CA Governor Newsom deemed #farmersmarkets an “essential business,” and #California farmers have risen to… t.co/GZ3iBHFVHb

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: Radical #inequality requires unequal sacrifices for common good in… t.co/cn4id4O6sH

A letter to the editor by PI’s Manal Aboelata ran in this week’s @latimes, calling for safe management of #parks an… t.co/koMwgrrsVn

Health is the foundation of everything else. We can’t experience any of the other opportunities of life—going to wo… t.co/6vxfLEZFoK

$4.3 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support federal, state, and local public health… t.co/27zw5WMa3Z

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (S. 3548) provides emergency healthcare and economic… t.co/z0qRmsmkTf

We're posting regular updates on federal actions to address COVID-19, including the Senate's vote to pass a $2T rel… t.co/3QA7ZEJ8dl