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 report: A Health Equity Approach to Preventing Sexual Violence

New blog: We are still in the fight for “absolute equality.”

Spotlight

New framework: Community safety realized

New: Analysis of CA Gov. Newsom's Revised 2021-2022 Budget Proposal

Webinar recording: Community Safety Realized

New video: Building Healing Communities

Toolkit: Preventing trauma and suicide during catastrophic events and beyond

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

Toolkit: Making Connections Backpack

Podcast: Community safety through investing in youth

Prevention Institute's 2020 Accomplishments

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

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

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BLOG June 18, 2021

PI's Media Digest: Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday; states restrict access to food assistance; ACA survives another challenge

PI + @NSVRC have a new report that details a #healthequity approach to preventing sexual violence. It shares local… t.co/XFEYAvig9y

July-Nov, 2021, on the 3rd Tuesday of every other month, 11 AM-12 PM PST / 2-3 PM EST, PI will facilitate a learnin… t.co/Ui83aquPRg

"The best way the administration can thank women of color is by expanding its current care infrastructure investmen… t.co/7gMPxxbBfT

.@CAgovernor @GavinNewsom @Rendon63rd @SenToniAtkins 60,000 youth are counting on you. Fully fund the Office of You… t.co/DVyX3nkeuw

"The Pandemic Led To The Biggest Drop In U.S. Life Expectancy Since WWII, Study Finds" @NPR t.co/wG3uNaAD0F

PI's weekly media digest is up! In this week's edition: #Juneteenth becomes a federal holiday; states restrict acce… t.co/osriS8tESP