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

Podcast: What Medellín can teach use about healthy and equitable land use

Blog: From McKinleyville to San Diego, five communities redefine intimate partner violence prevention

Spotlight

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

Rachel A. Davis of Prevention Institute wins the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence

Op-ed: Opioid Settlement Funds Must Go Where They’re Needed Most—Treatment and Prevention

How communities working on mental health for men and boys build and sustain momentum

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

Blog: Informal Gathering Spaces for Healing Community Trauma

East San Jose PEACE Partnership uses community strengths to counteract violence and trauma.

Commentary: A System of Prevention: Applying a Systems Approach to Public Health

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

BLOG December 6, 2019

PI's Media Digest: SNAP changes threaten access to food assistance for over 750K people, unequal access to shade in LA, and the health effects of noise pollution

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: #SNAP changes threaten access to #food assistance for over 750K pe… t.co/kNhEIXbf4q

On top of the #opioidepidemic rural America now faces an #HIV crisis they're unprepared to face. "People w/ H.I.V.… t.co/pJQCDruQ2b

New Resource: Organizing Engagement is an online publication dedicated to advancing knowledge, understanding, and p… t.co/kSepbbK3hg

This article featured in @voxdotcom explains how America's historically racist #housing policies and present-day pr… t.co/2YEfkILLpC

.@BlockClubChi features Legends of Lawndale of PI's Making Connections Initiative with @Movember. “It teaches you v… t.co/0boK764E4D

PI's Sana Chehimi gearing up to test a new #VirtualReality tool for decision makers - an immersive experience showc… t.co/vsqr33Z4nV

We need an “upstream” approach to chronic conditions and #mentalhealth—by zooming out to assess and improve entire… t.co/P3NVUzKCzC