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This video tells the story of Prevention Institute’s equity-driven, upstream, community-level approach to public health. It focuses on two communities we collaborated with that brought together community members, government agencies, grassroots nonprofits, and health organizations to improve the community conditions that shape health.
Supporting safe relationships, mental wellbeing, and economic security are goals for many communities —but the connections between these issues often go unnoticed.
In this episode of the Moving Upstream podcast, PI’s deputy executive director, Manal J. Aboelata, talks about her trip to Medellín, Colombia to learn about their innovative improvements to the city’s infrastructure. She explains how this city that was not long ago called “one of the most dangerous cities on earth” has transformed itself through public health investments, and what we in the US can learn from its example.
Join the Healthy, Equitable, Active Land Use (HEALU) Network for Part 4 of our four-part summit series, Equity as a Through Line: Social Movements, Public Finance, and Infrastructure Investments for Healthy Communities.
Prevention Institute’s Leslie Mikkelsen, Sandra Viera, Katie Miller, and Rea Pañares discuss how healthcare organizations are collaborating with community organizations to address social determinants of health and improve health and equity. They talk about challenges of the work and highlight successes from the field. To learn more about PI’s health system transformation work, visit: preventioninstitute.org/focus-areas/h…ransformation *Photo credit: Heart of Texas Community Healthcare System