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

New toolkit: Preventing trauma and suicide during catastrophic events and beyond

New brief: Four Shifts to Heal Communities: Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice in Land Use Planning and the Built Environment

Spotlight

New toolkit: Making Connections Backpack

Prevention Institute welcomes new board members from Houston and Cleveland

New toolkit: The Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building Advocacy Toolkit

Press Release: Prevention Institute awarded grant to establish national park equity funding initiative for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

Webinar Recording: Promoting Connectedness For Trauma and Suicide Prevention

Webinar recording: Safer Communities Through Racial Justice: Coordinated Virtual Action

Webinar Series: Park Equity, Life Expectancy, and Power Building

Webinar recording: Preventing Trauma and Youth Suicide During COVID-19 and Beyond

Podcast: Six Months into the Pandemic: What’s working and what do we still desperately need to do?

Video: If you want to talk health, you have to talk racial justice

New op-ed: Health and Equity Are On the Ballot With Prop. 15

Op-ed: Are Cities Willing To Cut Police Spending And Invest In Community Violence Prevention?

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

BLOG January 15, 2021

PI's Media Digest: American Rescue Plan released, four former directors reflect on how to rebuild trust in the CDC

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PI proudly joins @healthyAmerica1 & 300+ groups in supporting The Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 20… t.co/HKfEBTs646

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PI's new toolkit-the Making Connections Backpack-shares community-led strategies for creating #socialconnection. It… t.co/eMotMJW0cS