Advanced prevention and health equity through racial justice.

As part of PI’s general operating support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to advance prevention and health equity, we strengthened internal infrastructure and external influence in the field. Internally, we formalized the Health Equity & Racial Justice Team and expanded our Timeline of Resistance to better connect policy implications with contemporary social movements, equipping staff and partners to advance racial justice. Externally, we fostered cross-sector dialogue through a 2025 National Day of Racial Healing webinar where staff reflected on lived experience, racial healing, and inclusive partnership-building at the intersection of public health and racial justice. To advance field-level learning, we recorded the Moving Upstream podcast episode “A Mercy in the Telling: Memory, Story, and Public Health Evidence,” exploring how research, lived experience, and art can inform a more human framework for equity and justice. 

Funder: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (The Moving Upstream podcast episode was co-funded by core support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Kresge Foundation.) 

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