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- Module 1: Achieving Equity in Health and Safety through Primary Prevention
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- Building Community Health Measures into Modeling for Healthy Regional Planning and Decisions: One Day Workshop for Public Health and Metropolitan Planning Agency Staff
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- "Arrests are not the solution for the violence problem" (7.11.10)
- Addressing Violence, Boosting Community Health (6.02.10)
- PI's Larry Cohen and CA state controller John Chiang: "Budget reforms should start with better health planning" op-ed in San Jose Mercury (5.14.10)
- "Group strives to treat symptoms of violence as preventative measure" (5.12.10)
- Prevention Institute and UNITY in Contra Costa News: "U.S. attorney general visits East Bay youth center seen as possible model for nation" (5.11.10)
- "Upending Twisted Norms" profiles CeaseFire Chicago (New York Times: 5.10.10)
- "Groups Vie for $15 Billion In Prevention Money," Prevention Institute says prevention money in health reform should go to community prevention (5.06.10)
- "Kudos for first lady's anti-obesity campaign," Marion Nestle references Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' (4.02.10)
- Health Plans Can Do Well by Doing Good
- Letters to the Editor: Leslie Mikkelsen and Shakirah Simley in the Sacramento Bee (03.05.10)
- "WWII Program Enlisted for War on Childhood Obesity" (02.08.10)
- Letter to the Editor: "Innovative Policies Need Time To Work" (Health Affairs: 01.10)
- Letter to the Editor: Larry Cohen on "Cells and Texting Cause 28 Percent of Traffic Crashes" (San Francisco Chronicle: 01.15.10)
- “Cost-saving prisons aren’t the California dream—prevention is.” Op-ed by Rachel Davis, published in San Francisco Chronicle (01.12.10)
- "Poverty, Poor Education Shave Years Off the Life Span," Prevention Institute listed as a resource (Business Week 1.4.10)
- The Sacramento Bee interviews Executive Director Larry Cohen, "Better habits can help trim bloated health care system" (01.02.10)
- "A New Health Care Prevention Agenda: Sustainable Food Procurement and Agricultural Policy" published in The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (09)
- Bay Area Dietetics Association interviews Managing Director Leslie Mikkelsen on "Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define Healthful Food" (11.09)
- Prevention Institute and UNITY in The Denver Post (11.15.09)
- Prevention Institute Featured in the Nürnberger Zeitung (2.12.09)
- Letter To The Editor: Rachel Davis on "Focus in Chicago: Students at Risk of Violence" (New York Times: 10.7.09)
- Letter To The Editor: Rachel Davis on "Seeking Safe Passage: Curing a Public Epidemic" (Chicago Tribune: 10.7.09)
- Letter to the Editor: Janani Srikantharajah on "Roads Must be Safer for Everyone" (The Oakland Tribune: 03.18.09)
- "What's Healthy?" Prevention Institute's 'Setting the Record Straight' featured in the Atlantic and the New York Times Bitten Blog (03.26.09)
- "Bystanders can deter bullying," AZCentral interviews Prevention Institute's Annie Lyles (12.08)
- Leslie Mikkelsen interviewed by ABC news in "Will Rising Food Costs Make you Fat?" (03.18.08)
- "California Launches New Public Health Department,"
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- Prevention Institute receives Heritage Property Designation
- A Major Milestone in Preventing Violence
- "Our kids didn't do this to themselves"
- America’s Agenda and Prevention Institute Applaud Harkin HELP Leadership Appointment (09.09)
- Leading National Foundations and Health-Care Organizations Make Unprecedented Call for Investment in Prevention (08.09)
- Prominent Prevention Organization Endorses Public Plan Option (07.09)
- Leading Health Advocate Applauds Respondents in Recent Poll for Putting Prevention First (07.09)
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- Principles For Quality Prevention In Health Reform
- Next Steps for Health Reform
- Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Principles for Prevention
- Convergence Partnership Comments to Senate Committee on Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act
- Addressing the Intersection: preventing violence and promoting healthy eating and active living
- Recipes for Change released
- Health Reform: Prevention starts now
- ARRA releases Communities Putting Prevention to Work funding
- Bi-partisan Emphasis on Prevention: Yesterday, California; Today, the US
- Moving from Vision to Reality: Priority Actions to Advance Equitable Opportunities for Healthy Eating and Activity in California
- Historic Funding of Prevention and Wellness: Sebelius releases Recovery Act Grants for Community Prevention and Wellness
- A New Resource for Equity
- Welcome to Our New Website!
- Are Cost-Saving Prisons the California Dream?
- Landmark Investment in Prevention: HHS Announces ARRA Prevention and Wellness Fund
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- Leading National Foundations and Health-Care Organizations Make Unprecedented Call for Investment in Prevention
- Strengthening What Works: Critical Provisions for Prevention and Public Health in Health Reform Legislation
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