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Founding Director Larry Cohen to pass the torch to PI veteran Rachel Davis
This week, Larry Cohen, founder and executive director of Prevention Institute, announced that he will be retiring from the organization in October and handing over its leadership to Managing...
In her blog in the Houston Chronicle, Valerie Borum Smith explains why social determinants of health should be addressed in medical settings. She discusses how she has drawn inspiration from Prevention Institute’s Community Centered Health Homes model, which calls for community health clinics to expand prevention, change social norms, and promote community-level policies that support health.
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On Wednesday, in the face of rising public outcry, President Trump issued an executive order to stop the separation of immigrant families. The vaguely worded order suggests that the administration’s policy going forward will be to detain families together, which is expected to run afoul of the 1997 Flores settlement agreement that children cannot be held in government detention
