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

Event: Metrics for Healthy and Equitable Land Use

Book chapter: Addressing Community Trauma and Building Community Resilience to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Addiction

Spotlight

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

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

Op-ed: Big Soda remains Sacramento’s beverage of choice

New podcast: Community organizing to prevent violence

Blog: To Improve Mental Health, We Need To Take On Social and Racial Injustice

Op-ed: State Water Agreement is a Victory for Health Equity

Communities of Care: A new initiative to promote mental health and wellbeing

New PI Podcast: Land Use, Gentrification, and Health

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

BLOG September 20, 2019

PI's Media Digest: Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy, how climate change fuels extreme politics around the globe

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: Purdue Pharma Files For Bankruptcy, How Climate Change Fuels Extre… t.co/BdFDiz72w0

Please write to your member of Congress now and share this call to action with your colleagues and friends: t.co/FJVVTvwIYJ

"Language in the House FY20 Appropriations bill would prevent slaughterhouses from changing their practices under t… t.co/UORq79o3t0

via @CSPI: "Food safety allies in Congress are trying to freeze funding for implementation of the rule while the Of… t.co/JVtdBvO2xP

The USDA is set to privatize critical food-safety inspection work. Take action with @CSPI to urge Congress to freez… t.co/rYaNrr1Jv7

Join us for a web forum featuring PI and leaders of Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga: Designing a System of… t.co/IMvoQEo1B4