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 podcast: How healthcare is partnering to improve community health

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

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

New Brief: Economic security and safe relationships: Pathways and actions for partner violence prevention

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

BLOG September 13, 2019

PI's Media Digest: Purdue Pharma reaches tentative settlement on opioids, new research shows positive childhood experiences can help counteract negative health effects of ACEs

Congratulations on 30 years of amazing work, @EsperanzaCHC ! We are proud to work in partnership with you. t.co/jPvVWib437

In the recently passed CA Budget, the CA Natural Resources Agency was given $5.3 Million of #Prop64 tax revenues fo… t.co/UeyGzADvjM

PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: Purdue Pharma reaches tentative settlement on opioids, new researc… t.co/dLayTQm4kr

Today PI's Elva Yañez is at the "Equipping Communities for Action: 2019 Lead Poisoning Grantee Event" in DC represe… t.co/ozVzp44Gm3