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.

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New podcast: Community safety through investing in youth

Gun Violence Must Stop. Here's What We Can Do To Prevent More Deaths

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New video: Building Healing Communities

PI, CPEHN, and ChangeLab stand against racism, violence, and hate crimes

Podcast: #WhyWeCantWait: A New Deal for Youth

New toolkit: Making Connections Backpack

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

Prevention Institute's 2020 Accomplishments

Op-ed: How California can make the vaccine distribution system more equitable

Welcome new Prevention Institute staff!

Scholarship opportunity: PI partners with Healthline on the Stronger Scholarship

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

Podcast: Policy priorities for the Biden/Harris Administration

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

Prevention Institute welcomes new board members from Houston and Cleveland

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

BLOG May 14, 2021

PI's Media Digest: Mothers face barriers to returning to work, NRA attempt to evade legal challenges fails

Funding opportunity! Elevate Youth CA supports organizations working on youth substance use prevention, education +… t.co/sWTW8WWtKg

PI's Elva Yañez, who led PI’s collab w/ UCLA’s Department of Environment Health Sciences and 7 base-building orgs o… t.co/NafslaSsju

Research shows: as #greenspace inequities shrink, so to do racial inequities in #COVID infection. Gov. Newsom’s pro… t.co/Ls0dZm0xHp

Gov. Newsom proposes a $20 billion investment to re-imagine CA #publicschools + bring per-pupil-spending to nearly… t.co/Wcxqp6kz7K

Gov. Newsom’s proposed investments in park equity could improve health outcomes in high-need communities in CA. PI'… t.co/GqaJTVDygD

Reflection and continuous quality improvement are essential processes for both effective movement building and… t.co/TLECCE4hgl

This week's media digest is up! In this week's edition: Mothers face barriers to returning to work, NRA attempt to… t.co/RSoBHXlleQ