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 policy brief: Healing LA Neighborhoods

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

Spotlight

Read our annual report and find out what’s in store for next year.

New Grant Opportunity: 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

Book chapter: Addressing Community Trauma and Building Community Resilience to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Addiction

Op ed: The effects of housing discrimination on health can reverberate for decades

Blog: Overcoming Guns, Racism, And Hatred

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

BLOG February 7, 2020

PI's Media Digest: The Great Affordability Crisis; a 21st-century vision for public libraries; homicide a leading cause of death for pregnant women and girls

A fantastic piece on the importance of drawing on #culture and #community when implementing upstream #prevention pr… t.co/pEUOFdUKJQ

If you want to talk health, you have to talk housing. We are so glad Governor Newsom is talking about the… t.co/9oT8LUiTV5

PI's Manal J. Aboelata looks forward to participating in the Transcendients Community Celebration at @jamuseum for… t.co/Xc6VvK2J1j

Injuries are not accidents — they are predictable and preventable. And yet, 6,200+ pedestrians were killed by traff… t.co/kHXSVMsNfE

Despite opposition from unions, business groups and electric utilities, the #EPA plans to declare that it is not "a… t.co/ZXDh2HbKGU

Register now to join a conversation at UCLA on March 2nd about the @luskincenter forthcoming report on Human Right… t.co/kmB0IR2LGi

Today PI's Juliet Sims is at the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color 2020 Policy Briefing to discuss advancing racia… t.co/Bl1c9NQuFj