Co-published by Prevention Institute and Jossey Bass and APHA, Prevention is Primary describes the overarching foundation and principles guiding primary prevention efforts and highlights prevention practice through a range of social and health issues, including chronic disease, HIV, violence, and mental health.

Co-released with The California Endowment and The Urban Institute, this document describes how investment in primary prevention can lead to improved health and health care.

Prevention Institute, Trust for America's Health, Urban Institute, New York Academy of Medicine, The California Endowment, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that: Small investments in community-level prevention have substantial returns Prevention can produce significant health care savings nationally and in every state The savings from investment in prevention accrue to both public and private health care payers Investing in prevention has a multiplier effect-multiple saving for multiple conditions Focusing prevention investments on communities with the most compromised health

The First Steps report, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and done in collaboration with Action Alliance for Children and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, synthesizes a decade's worth of research on violence prevention, and presents best practices, as well as a comprehensive strategy to start effective violence prevention efforts at an early age.