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

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

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

Spotlight

Update: For coronavirus information, turn to your local public health department

New podcast: Coronavirus: from the urgency of reaction to the importance of long-term action

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

New article: Stormwater Management is an Equity Issue

New policy brief: Healing LA Neighborhoods

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

Featured initiative: 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

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

BLOG April 10, 2020

PI's Media Digest: Racial inequities in COVID-19 exposure & outcomes, links to air pollution, and WI voters forced to choose between observing shelter in place and exercising right to vote

PI's Media Digest is up! Racial inequities in #COVID19 exposure & outcomes, links to air #pollution, and WI voters… t.co/qGNBuOkup3

“If the #COVID19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that isolation is bad for us, mentally and physically.” Let… t.co/kKjhhiWsuX

Emergency resources for #COVIDー19 have not been dedicated to behavioral health orgs despite overwhelming need for s… t.co/tral3S0HTa

EPA is trying to push thru a rule that would make it even harder for the fed gov’t to handle #publichealth challeng… t.co/e8LPZkO5kq

#Coronavirus patients in cities with higher levels of air #pollution are more likely to die from #COVIDー19 than peo… t.co/vqwaNQwMcc

Next Tuesday, April 14th, PI's Lisa Fujie Parks will participate in a panel discussion hosted by @CitiesUnited: "Co… t.co/exkSFa03dW

ENACT Day is moving online! Join us on April 30 from 10am-11:30am PST to understand how the federal and state respo… t.co/Mv8HJ2RewO