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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.
Prevention Institute’s National Day of Racial Healing event brings together community leaders to reflect on healing in practice. Centering lived experience and equity, panelists explore leadership, public health transformation, and collective care in advancing racial justice.
This podcast explores expanding evidence in public health, featuring UCEE and A Mercy in the Telling—centering lived experience, story, and art to advance equity and justice.
Over the past three years, Prevention Institute (PI) has worked to strengthen the relevance and effectiveness of public health strategies to advance racial justice and health equity within the field. In this podcast, Director Ruben Cantu talks with PI staff members La’Quana Williams (Associate Program Director) and Alberto Espiricueta (Program Assistant) on their journey to accomplish this goal. The podcast details the tools produced within the grant period, the importance of cultivating partnerships with racial and social justice organizations, as well as the challenges, opportunities, and
Prevention Institute’s work centers on health equity and racial justice. With support from the Kellogg Foundation, we engaged organizations improving community health to share insights, strengthen partnerships, and inform practices that advance equitable systems.
Building Bridges. Building Bridges 2.0 presents foundational principles of health equity and racial justice, as well as their role in data / evidence and community engagement. The four modules include examples, activities, discussion questions, and resources to facilitate deeper learning on these topics. This resource and accompanying facilitation guide (download on the right) will best serve public health and racial / social justice organizations who are looking to effectively align and integrate issues of equity and racial justice.
The first session of Lessons Along the Journey is a discussion of the role of public health in social justice movements.
The second session of Lessons Along the Journey is a discussion on cultivating stronger community-based partnerships and power sharing.
The Timeline of Resistance is an interactive presentation tool that uncovers the social justice roots of the field of public health, explores historical and contemporary racial justice movements, and provides strategies for the field to reclaim its social justice origins. Drawing on elements of Prevention Institute’s THRIVE Framework , the Timeline offers public health advocates concrete historical and contemporary examples of BIPOC communities’ resistance efforts to reverse/dismantle systems of oppression. The Timeline is complemented by a Playlist of songs by artists of color celebrating
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