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  • PI's Media Digest: CDC will no longer control COVID-19 data for fed govt, admin rolls back environmental protections

    July 17, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending July 17, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • Critical Conversations on the Intersections of Structural Racism, Youth, and Community Well-being

    July 13, 2020

    In this webinar recording, Critical Conversations on the Intersections of Structural Racism, Youth, and Community Well-being: Unpacking the Impacts of Structural Racism on Youth, PI's Sheila Savannah joins Dr. Jamila Porter, Safe States Director of Programs and Evaluation, in a conversation with STRYVE Action Council panelists.

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  • PI's Media Digest: New CDC data shows racial inequities in COVID-19 exposure and deaths, overdoses up during pandemic.

    July 10, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending July 10, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • PI's Media Digest: COVID-19 racial disparities; how LA's freeways drive racial inequities

    June 26, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 26, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute.

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  • Advocating for health equity and racial justice—from my bedroom, but in community

    June 23, 2020

    ENACT Day is an annual advocacy day that connects community representatives with California elected officials to discuss the health and equity issues that matter most to their communities.

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  • PI's Media Digest: Public health officials face threats and harassment; DACA survives Supreme Court challenge.

    June 19, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 19, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • PI's Media Digest: Thinking about what "defund the police" might mean in practice, cycling during COVID-19

    June 12, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 12, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • End Racism. Our Lives Depend on It.

    June 8, 2020

    The killing of George Floyd by method of knee to the neck by a sworn white male officer and three complicit officers who stood by and inflicted further harm rather than choosing to render aid; the video revelation of the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery by white male vigilantes in Georgia; the fatal shooting of EMT Breonna Taylor by police executing a no-knock search warrant in Louisville; and the video-taped interaction in New York's Central Park between a white female Amy Cooper evoking a dangerous false narrative assassinating the character of Christian Cooper—a dramatization she clearly believed would work in her favor—brought to light, once again, this country's sickening and ultimately fatal attachment to hurting, harming, diminishing, and destroying Black lives. It’s past time to dismantle this culture of hatred. Black Lives Matter. It’s past time to end racist outcomes through tangible actions.

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  • PI's Media Digest: Protests continue across the US and the world after the police killing of George Floyd

    June 5, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending June 5, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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  • PI's Media DIgest: Protests over police violence in Minneapolis, 100K COVID-19 deaths recorded in US, violence interrupters support COVID-19 response

    May 29, 2020

    Welcome to our media digest for the week ending May 29, 2020! Each week, PI compiles a round-up of the latest public health-related news, with an eye toward media framing and language, particularly as they relate to the role of primary prevention. The views expressed in these articles do not reflect those of Prevention Institute. 

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