This PI-authored article published in the Journal of Public Health Policy’s special issue on Violence and Health: Merging Evidence and Implementation details how comprehensive strategies to improve community conditions can reduce violence and promote health equity. It describes how PI tools and frameworks, used by our Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY) cities, can be adapted for international application in multi-sector collaboration, influencing policy and legislation, and strengthening local violence prevention efforts.

To download a PDF version of this infographic, click here. The infographic captures the approaches detailed in our paper Disrupting the Pathway, A Medical Approach to High Utilization.

Building a Thriving Nation: 21st-Century Vision and Practice to Advance Health and Equity, recently published by the Health Education & Behavior journal, includes a brief overview of our work and tools based on Founder Larry Cohen’s keynote speech at the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) national convening

Compiled by Prevention Institute (with support from the Kresge Foundation), the following eight profiles demonstrate how states are moving beyond silos to partner within and outside of state governments to support innovative initiatives that advance population health. These profiles were prepared in response to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's interest in the important role of states in facilitating collaborations and comprehensive efforts that improve community environments. The initiatives highlighted represent a variety of states and diverse health issues and risk factors

Comprehensive evidence-based decisions require the best available research, professional insights and contextual realities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new report Understanding Evidence: Part 1: Best Available Research Evidence provides guidance on implementing prevention strategies and the different types of evidence available to track the success of a prevention initiative. The document introduces the Continuum of Evidence of Effectiveness, a tool developed to facilitate a common language for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in discussing evidence-based

Prevention Institute's Founder Larry Cohen chronicles the history of anti-smoking efforts, and how he helped guide a new approach that has resulted in policy and legislative changes. See how prevention efforts, like banning smoking in public places, promoting healthy eating and preventing violence, can result in healthier, happier communities.

Presents environmental and policy approaches to supporting healthy food and active living environments, with a presentation by Prevention Institute's Larry Cohen that also focuses on preventing violence while reducing chronic disease risk factors. Hosted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the assistance of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), this webinar aired in October 2009 to provide information to potential ARRA applicants.

This document discusses health care leaders' broadening awareness to include the need to address the food system as a means to individual, public, and global health, above and beyond basic nutritional factors; explores health care's involvement in policy and advocacy as vital to solve the expanding ecological health crises facing our nation and globe.

Community approaches to public health keep people healthy in the first place. This video aired on CNN.

This publication outlines strategies on violence prevention, including primary, secondary and tertiary approaches, that have been prioritized by UNITY Network cities.