Larry Cohen, MSW
Executive Director and Founder
Prevention Institute
Oakland, CA
Larry Cohen, MSW, is founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, a national nonprofit dedicated to improving community health and equity through effective primary prevention: building resilience and preventing illness, injury, and violence before they occur. Larry has helped to advance a deeper understanding of how community factors shape health outcomes and provides resources, conceptual frameworks, and tools to help communities address health inequities leading to illness, injury, and violence. Prevention Institute has been deeply engaged in national strategy to incorporate a focus on and investment in prevention and community wellness as part of the health reform agenda and stimulus funding.
Larry's Web Forums
Thursday, 10:00AM – 11:00AM Pacific Time
Back to Our Roots: Exploring the History of Community Mental Health and Identifying Strategies to Advance Population Wide Mental Health and Wellbeing
Presenters: Larry Cohen , Ruben Cantu
Tuesday, 11:30AM – 1:00PM Pacific Time
Leadership Approaches to Defending and Advancing Prevention and Public Health
Presenters: Nora Connors , Georges Benjamin , Larry Cohen , Mary Pittman , John M. Auerbach
Friday, 10:00AM – 11:00AM Pacific Time
Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Larry Cohen in Conversation about Prevention Diaries: The Practice and Pursuit of Health For All
Presenters: Deborah Prothrow-Stith , Larry Cohen
Thursday, 1:00PM – 2:30PM Pacific Time
2015 Funding Opportunity: Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of U.S. Men and Boys
Presenters: Clare Shann , Larry Cohen , Howard Pinderhughes , Sheila Savannah
Monday, 10:00AM – 11:30AM Pacific Time
Moving Community Prevention Forward: New Funding Opportunities to Advance Community Health and Equity
Presenters: Richard Hamburg , Amanda Maria Navarro , Larry Cohen
Thursday, 12:00PM – 1:30PM Pacific Time
Tobacco Free Living: Community Transformation Grant Successes and Lessons Learned
Presenters: Larry Cohen , Selfa Saucedo , Irene Linayao-Putman , Terese Voge
Friday, 11:30AM – 1:00PM Pacific Time
$1 Billion in CMMI Innovation Awards: Opportunities for Advancing Community Prevention and Population Health
Presenters: Jim Hester , Stacy Tessler Lindau , Kimberlydawn Wisdom , Larry Cohen , Mary Pittman , Jeffrey Levi
Thursday, 11:00AM – 12:30PM Pacific Time
Investing in Community Prevention: A Dialogue with Federal Leadership on the Community Transformation Grants and the National Prevention Strategy
Presenters: Mayra Alvarez , Andrew Rein , Janet Collins , Ursula Bauer , Corinne Graffunder , Judith Bell , Larry Cohen
Tuesday, 12:00PM – 1:30PM Pacific Time
Tractors, Trucks and Trains… How Federal Farm and Transportation Policies Impact Our Health
Presenters: Anne Haddix , Larry Cohen , Lorelei DiSogra , Derek Miller , Tom Neumann , Katherine Perez
Friday, 9:30AM – 11:00AM Pacific Time
Tapping Into the Economic Stimulus Dollars: The State Perspective
Presenters: Larry Cohen , Paul Halverson , Paul Jarris