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

Intersections: a healthcare initiative that goes beyond the exam room to address the causes of illness and injury

Safety Through Connection: A new program to prevent domestic violence

Spotlight

A System of Prevention: Achieving Health, Safety, and Wellbeing for All is now available in print and as an e-book

New leadership at Prevention Institute

Fostering Resilience to Address and Prevent Community Trauma

If you want to talk health, you have to talk income and wealth

Partnering for health equity: Grassroots organizations on collaborating with public health agencies

A Time of Opportunity: Water, Health, and Equity in the Los Angeles Region

Community-Centered Health Homes: Bridging Healthcare Services and Community Prevention

California just banned soda tax—it should set off alarm bells everywhere

If you want to talk health, you have to talk social connection.

New Brief: Countering the Production of Health Inequities

If you want to talk health, you have to talk housing

PI's new list of recommendations for actions you can take to prevent gun violence

New report and profiles: Adverse community experiences and resilience

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

BLOG December 14, 2018

The inequitable distribution of heat in warming cities, USDA rolls back school meal standards

PI's weekly Media Digest is out! In this week's edition: The inequitable distribution of heat in warming cities, US… t.co/xeI3uVZW4K

Today marks six years since #SandyHook. There's still much we can do to #prevent #gunviolence, change policy and no… t.co/2HNI2lM1R4

Every 10 years, #HHS develops a set of goals to advance #phealth and #prevention by identifying key strategies to a… t.co/LcYqzYBk5c

Norms influence our sense of what’s acceptable and not acceptable within a community. Register now for a December 1… t.co/M9vEq5mJDK

California State Senator Scott Wiener introduced legislation intended to spur housing development near public trans… t.co/q3DzKYE4Dx

Weigh in on #HealthyPeople2030's vision, mission, and overarching #phealth goals as we look toward the future. Publ… t.co/xKpMgj5kBF

An investigation by @ProPublica, @frontlinepbs, @nytimes of NYC’s housing program for people living with mental ill… t.co/UdbNyQ9iLL

.@highcountrynews reports on the inequitable burden of heat in Tucson, one of the cities most exposed to extreme he… t.co/5UMYaUD2HV