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 paper: Building Bridges: The Strategic Imperative for Advancing Health Equity and Racial Justice

New op-ed: Cannabis Tax Revenues Are Going to Police Budgets, Not Communities

Spotlight

Coronavirus resources for health, safety, and wellbeing

Podcast: Applying a racial justice lens to mental health and wellbeing

End Racism. Our Lives Depend on It.

Podcast: Ending violence by the police and in the community: calls to action for justice and peace

‘Divest from police’ and invest in policies that take a different approach to public safety

Blog: Communities build strengths, assets, and resilience into their pandemic response

Op-ed: Bankruptcy and privatization will not lead us to recovery

Op-ed: Society Designed the Systems That Created COVID-19 Inequalities — We Can Redesign Them

Podcast: Cities respond to COVID-19

Video: MC:ID How We’re Staying Connected

Op ed: Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19.

Preventing violence in our homes: Meeting this moment with connection, care, and justice

Op-ed: If we can safely distance at the grocery store, surely we can do the same at parks

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

BLOG July 31, 2020

PI's Media Digest: Public charge rule blocked; US death toll surpasses 150,000; and a letter from John Lewis

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