Promoting Health Equity
We believe that every person deserves an equal opportunity to be healthy and safe. Health equity guides all of our work.
Prevention in Action
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Rachel A. Davis of Prevention Institute wins the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence
Read moreNew initiative: Visualizing and Powering Healthy Lives: Connecting parks to life expectancy in LA County
Read moreBook chapter: Addressing Community Trauma and Building Community Resilience to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Addiction
Read moreNew podcast: How healthcare is partnering to improve community health
Read moreOp ed: The effects of housing discrimination on health can reverberate for decades
Read moreBlog: Overcoming Guns, Racism, And Hatred
Read moreBlog: Informal Gathering Spaces for Healing Community Trauma
Read moreEast San Jose PEACE Partnership uses community strengths to counteract violence and trauma.
Read moreCommentary: A System of Prevention: Applying a Systems Approach to Public Health
Read moreOp-ed: Big Soda remains Sacramento’s beverage of choice
Read moreNew podcast: Community organizing to prevent violence
Read moreBlog: To Improve Mental Health, We Need To Take On Social and Racial Injustice
Read moreOp-ed: State Water Agreement is a Victory for Health Equity
Read moreExplore our Focus Areas
Health System Transformation - Health Equity
- Preventing Violence
- Mental Health & Wellbeing
- Prevention in California
- Healthy Food & Active Environments
- Quality Housing in Equitable Communities
- Unintentional Injury Prevention
- Early Childhood
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News from Prevention Institute
PI's Media Digest is up! In this week's edition: CDC reports on rising suicide rate among children and young people… t.co/P7TM86XZNU
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Save the date! @GoodFoodLA's #FoodDayLA celebrating food as art and culture! This 10/25 at City Hall.… t.co/Bsv47VGcrc
Without access to affordable #healthcare, low-income #immigrants health care sometimes pay out-of-pocket for basic… t.co/IP41fLZKvm
Right now, immigrants have to wait five years after getting a green card to be eligible for Medicaid and CHIP. This… t.co/MPbR730tp9
Nobody should have to choose between getting the health care they need and putting food on the table or paying rent… t.co/6ccdpSZMWk
If passed and implemented, #HEAL4Immigrants would demonstrate our country’s commitment to health access for everyon… t.co/EQunDM9qWs
