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On Jan 21, 2025, Prevention Institute marked the National Day of Racial Healing with a virtual panel on lived experience, public health, and racial justice. Staff leaders shared how their work advances healing, equity, and community-centered approaches to health, safety, and wellbeing.

This past June, Prevention Institute, We-Collab, and our partners convened the inaugural meeting of the SYNC Safety learning community. SYNC (Strategies for Youth and Neighborhood Centered Safety) is a CDC-supported project to increase the capacity of Black- and Brown-led community-based organizations to take a public health and health equity-focused approach to preventing violence. Please join us for this look at the convening!

Prevention Institute shares the principles, strategies, and recommendations from the Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence: Promising Practices and Recommendations report.

With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Institute and its partners–Big Cities Health Coalition, ChangeLab Solutions, SheRay’s and Associates, and RTI International– are working collectively to increase an understanding of the evidence-base for preventing substance use, misuse, and overdose; build the capacity of decision makers to make choices informed by science, contextual, and lived experience to reduce overdose in their jurisdictions; and strengthen partnerships to enhance the effectiveness of using opioid settlement funding. As states and jurisdictions

Supporting Decision Makers Using Opioid Settlement Funds: Planning for Prevention and Measuring Impact With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Institute and its partners–Big Cities Health Coalition, ChangeLab Solutions, SheRay’s and Associates, and RTI International– are working collectively to increase an understanding of the evidence-base for preventing substance use, misuse, and overdose; build the capacity of decision makers to make choices informed by science, contextual, and lived experience to reduce overdose in their jurisdictions; and strengthen

In this webinar, public health practitioners engaged in uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence in their work, aiming to inform decision-making for funding, strategies, policies, programs, and long-term planning. The session featured Dr. Kathryn Bocanegra and Fareeha Waheed, who shared their successes, challenges, and strategies for integrating all three forms of evidence as presented in the CDC’s Framework for Thinking about Evidence. Prevention Institute also discussed our ongoing work on the Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence (UCEE) project. Dr. Kathryn Bocanegra, an

Supporting Decision Makers Using Opioid Settlement Funds: What's in it for the People? A Conversation on Engagement With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Institute and its partners–Big Cities Health Coalition, ChangeLab Solutions, SheRay’s and Associates, and RTI International– are working collectively to increase an understanding of the evidence-base for preventing substance use, misuse, and overdose; build the capacity of decision makers to make choices informed by science, contextual, and lived experience to reduce overdose in their jurisdictions; and