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  • Prevention Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announce the People, Parks, and Power (P3) National Initiative Inaugural Cohort

    July 27, 2022

    Fourteen leading organizations will build power among community residents to advocate for local policy and systems changes to advance park and green space equity.

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  • Governor Newsom’s proposed investments in park equity could improve health outcomes in high-need communities throughout California.

    May 14, 2021

    Prevention Institute applauds the governor’s proposal for historic investments to improve community conditions that support health—from parks to education to housing.

    Governor Gavin Newsom’s ambitious budget revision injects historic investments into education, housing,...

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  • PI, CPEHN, and ChangeLab stand against racism, violence, and hate crimes

    March 8, 2021

    In the wake of increasing violence against Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in California and across the nation, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, ChangeLab Solutions, and Prevention Institute stand together to denounce the racism, violence, and hate crimes against our communities.

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  • Health and Racial Justice Advocates Applaud the 40% COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Based on Healthy Places Index

    March 4, 2021

    The California Black Health Network, California Immigrant Policy Center, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, The Children’s Partnership, Health Access, Justice in Aging, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and Prevention Institute celebrate and strongly support the state’s decision to allocate 40% of available COVID-19 doses(link is external) to the communities in the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index.

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  • Prevention Institute awarded grant to establish national park equity funding initiative for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    December 10, 2020

    PI will partner with the University of Utah to develop a new initiative, Building Momentum for Park and Green Space Equity in Small and Midsize Cities, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

    Prevention Institute is...

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  • Prevention Institute welcomes new board members from Houston and Cleveland

    November 17, 2020

    Natoya Walker-Minor and Judge Sharon Burney will bring leadership that bolsters PI’s efforts to achieve health equity and racial justice.

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  • 15 Public Health Organizations Condemn Herd Immunity Scheme for Controlling Spread of SARS CoVID-2

    October 14, 2020

    (Washington, DC) – SARS-CoVID-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 has infected at least 7.8 million people in the United States and 38 million worldwide. It has led to over 215,000 deaths domestically, and more than 1 million globally – with deaths continuing to climb.

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  • Health advocacy organizations applaud inclusion of equity in California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy

    October 1, 2020

    Prevention Institute, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, Health Access, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and Public Health Advocates released the following joint statement in response to Governor Newsom’s announcement of a new equity measure for California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. 

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  • Rachel A. Davis of Prevention Institute wins the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence

    September 25, 2019

    Oakland, CA – Today the American Public Health Association announced that Rachel A. Davis, executive director of the national nonprofit Prevention Institute is receiving the 2019 APHA Award for Excellence.

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  • Prevention Institute welcomes Milwaukee violence prevention leader Reggie Moore to its board of directors

    February 15, 2019

    Moore guided the city’s development of its first comprehensive violence prevention plan

    Prevention Institute is pleased to announce that Reggie Moore, director of the Office of Violence Prevention at the Milwaukee Health Department, will be joining...

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  • Government Shutdown Puts the Public’s Health at Risk; Potential for Harm Increases as Impasse Continues

    January 10, 2019

    As the government shutdown reaches its 20th day, leaders across a spectrum of health, public health and civil rights organizations call on Congress and the President to immediately reopen the government.

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  • Prevention Institute announces new program to prevent domestic violence: Five CA communities will receive grants to pursue community-based approaches to preventing intimate partner violence

    November 12, 2018

    Prevention Institute, with funding from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, has launched Safety Through Connection, a new program to catalyze community-based approaches that can help prevent domestic violence.

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  • Rachel A. Davis Appointed New Executive Director of Prevention Institute; Manal J. Aboelata, Founder of Prevention Institute’s Los Angeles Office, Becomes Deputy Executive Director

    November 1, 2018

    Oakland, CA—Rachel A. Davis, longtime managing director at the national nonprofit Prevention Institute, has been named the organization’s executive director, the board of directors announced today. Manal J. Aboelata, Prevention Institute’s managing director in Los Angeles, became the organization’s deputy executive director.

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  • Prevention Institute Statement Opposing SB 872: Let communities—not the soda industry—decide what’s best for their own health and safety

    June 26, 2018

    Prevention Institute strongly opposes California Senate Bill 872. New language in this budget trailer bill would block California cities and counties from passing new taxes on soda and other sugary drinks. California’s communities need the flexibility to pass local policies to protect health—and soda taxes are one of the most effective tools a community can leverage against a powerful and exploitative industry. 

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  • Prevention Institute Leadership Transition

    June 5, 2018

    This week, Larry Cohen, founder of Prevention Institute, announced that he will be retiring from the organization in October and handing over its leadership to Managing Director Rachel Davis. “I’m extraordinarily proud of what PI has achieved so far and deeply appreciative of the tremendous...

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  • Leading Public Health Groups: Using the Prevention Fund to help fund CHIP is a Serious Mistake

    December 22, 2017

    Statement from Trust for America’s Health, American Public Health Association, National Association of County and City Health Officials, Prevention Institute, and Public Health Institute

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  • To address opioids, we need to think upstream

    October 27, 2017

    Yesterday, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. This provides critical recognition for what has long been clear to those living on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic, but the administration’s response so far is too small and narrow to meet the scale of the challenge we face. Fifty-seven thousand dollars in a Public Health Emergency Fund and increased ‘flexibility’ to shift much-needed funding away from other health priorities like HIV/AIDS, as could result from the administration’s order, will not even begin to address this crisis. 

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  • Today’s heartbreaking news

    October 2, 2017

    Photo credit: Feggy Art on Flick

    Today, our hearts go out to those whose lives and...

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  • Graham-Cassidy is Legislative Malpractice - It Would Greatly Harm the Nation's Health

    September 25, 2017

     Graham-Cassidy is Legislative Malpractice - It Would Greatly Harm the Nation's Health: Joint Statement from American Public Health Association, Prevention Institute, Public Health Institute, and Trust for America’s Health

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  • Charlottesville: We stand with the counter-protesters and insist on social justice.

    August 15, 2017

    We were shocked, but not surprised, by the horrific hate-driven violence in Charlottesville and the motivations behind it.  We reject hatred, racism, white supremacy, and white nationalism. Sadly, the violence and unrest perpetrated this weekend reminds us that what happened in Charlottesville could happen at any moment anywhere in the United States. Every city, every community in our nation is vulnerable as we are living at a time when hate groups, who have a long history of discriminatory policies on their side, have been emboldened by the divisive words and inactions of political leaders whose responsibility is to ensure justice and safety for all—including communities of color and Native American communities, people who are LGBTQ+, low-income communities and people living in poverty, people of various faiths, and immigrants. Both the hate and the devastating outcomes of the ‘Unite the Right’ rally are politically unacceptable and deeply personal to all of us. 

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