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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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  • A new report from Prevention Institute explores how to improve conditions in neighborhoods and communities without pushing out current residents and small businesses.

    August 2, 2017

    For Immediate Release: August 2, 2017

    Media Contact: Communications@preventioninstitute.org

    A new report...

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  • Public Health Leaders Make Urgent Joint Call to Protect Prevention and Healthcare

    June 20, 2017

    Read a joint statement on the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act from American Public Health Association, Prevention Institute, Public Health Institute and Trust for America’s Health.

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  • It’s not over yet; let’s keep defending health and safety for all Americans

    May 4, 2017

    ”We are extremely disappointed in today’s U.S. House of Representatives vote to pass the American Health Care Act.

    Repealing the Affordable Care Act does not make our communities healthier or safer. Instead, our elected leaders have taken a step that threatens to undo years of progress in...

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  • EPA funding is vital to preserving public health

    April 19, 2017

    As Earth Day approaches, Prevention Institute founder Larry Cohen emphasizes that we must protect the environment to preserve public health:

    “There is no question that the health of our environment is tied to the health of our people. Climate change threatens to increase deadly weather...

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  • Mourning with Oakland

    December 5, 2016

     

    We watched with horror and deep sadness this weekend as news emerged about the deadly warehouse fire at an Oakland artists’ collective a few miles from our main office.  Our heartfelt support and condolences go out to the victims, their loved ones, and the Oakland community as a whole....

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  • Making Connections sites across the US host community events this Veterans Day to support vets, their families

    November 10, 2016

    As Veterans Day approaches, we’re highlighting the work of the national Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys initiative, which includes veterans among its populations of focus. Military members and veterans don’t just experience war, loss, injuries, and fear during service. Their social connections are disrupted when they are deployed, and again when they are discharged home. They return to communities where most people are not able to relate to their experiences, and they experience trauma-related symptoms at a disproportionate rate. 

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  • El Cajon shooting: A joint message from United Women of East Africa and Prevention Institute

    September 30, 2016

    We are deeply saddened by the news that Alfred Olango, a Ugandan native living in El Cajon, Calif., was shot dead by police following a call from his sister asking for assistance with a mental health crisis. Olango's death does not stand alone, but rather is the latest in a long line of deaths of mentally ill people at the hands of police, a burden that falls most heavily on communities of color. 

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  • New project aims to support public health departments in advancing health equity

    August 10, 2016

    The National Collaborative for Health Equity, Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, and Prevention Institute announced the launch of a new project to examine the potential for public health departments to actively pursue racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic equity in health, as well as in the systems and conditions that produce health.

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