Spatial Justice as a
Driver of Health in the
Context of Societal
Emergencies
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Vinu Ilakkuvan, Rapporteur
Roundtable on Population Health
Improvement
Board on Population Health and
Public Health Practice
Health and Medicine Division
Proceedings of a Workshop
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON SPATIAL JUSTICE AS A DRIVER OF HEALTH IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIETAL EMERGENCIES1
LOURDES RODRÍGUEZ, Senior Program Officer, St. David’s Foundation, Austin, TX
DAWN ALLEY, Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC
NUPUR CHAUDHURY, Health Equity Consultant, NupurSpectives Consulting, New York, NY
ALEJANDRA HERNANDEZ, Environment Fellow, The Kresge Foundation, Troy, MI
MILTON LITTLE, JR., President & CEO, United Way of Greater Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
MONIQUE TSOSIE, Program Analyst, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
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1 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published Proceedings of a Workshop rests with the workshop rapporteur and the institution.
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ROUNDTABLE ON POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT1
RAYMOND BAXTER (Co-chair), Trustee, Blue Shield of California Foundation, San Francisco, CA
KIRSTEN BIBBINS-DOMINGO (Co-chair), Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Lee Goldman, MD, Endowed Professor of Medicine; Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; San Francisco, CA
PHILIP M. ALBERTI, Senior Director, Health Equity Research and Policy, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC
DAWN ALLEY, Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC
JOHN AUERBACH, Executive Director, Trust for America’s Health, Washington, DC
DEBBIE I. CHANG, President and CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation, San Francisco, CA
MARC N. GOUREVITCH, Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
MARGARET GUERIN-CALVERT, Senior Managing Director and President, Center for Healthcare, Economics and Policy, FTI Consulting, Washington, DC
GARY R. GUNDERSON, Vice President, Faith Health, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
HILARY HEISHMAN, Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
DORA HUGHES, Associate Research Professor of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
SHERI JOHNSON, Director, Population Health Institute; Acting Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize; Associate Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
WAYNE JONAS, Executive Director, Integrative Health Programs, H & S Ventures, Samueli Foundation, Alexandria, VA
ROBERT M. KAPLAN, Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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1 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published Proceedings of a Workshop rests with the workshop rapporteur and the institution.
MILTON LITTLE, President, United Way of Greater Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
PHYLLIS D. MEADOWS, Senior Fellow, Health Program, Kresge Foundation, Troy, MI
BOBBY MILSTEIN, Director, ReThink Health, Morristown, NJ
JOSÉ T. MONTERO, Director, Center for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support; Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
VON NGUYEN, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, NC
KARA ODOM WALKER, Executive Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer, Nemours Children’s Health System, Washington, DC
WILLIE OGLESBY, Interim Dean, College of Population Health, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
JASON PURNELL, Vice President, Community Health Improvement, BJC HealthCare; Associate Professor, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
LOURDES RODRÍGUEZ, Senior Program Officer, St. David’s Foundation, Austin, TX
KOSALI SIMON, Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
OKTAWIA WÓJCIK, Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
HANH CAO YU, Chief Learning Officer, The California Endowment, Oakland, CA
Health and Medicine Division Staff
ALINA BACIU, Roundtable Director
ALEXANDRA ANDRADA, Program Officer
AYSHIA COLETRANE, Senior Program Assistant
MAGGIE ANDERSON, Research Assistant (beginning September 2021)
HARIKA DYER, Research Assistant (through July 2021)
ROSE M. MARTINEZ, Senior Board Director
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Contents
2 HISTORIES OF DISPLACEMENT AND DISPOSSESSION
Japanese Incarceration through the Lens of Settler Colonialism
400 Years of Inequality: Intertwined Stories of Rupture and Attachment
3 CLIMATE CHANGE DISPLACEMENT AND POPULATION RESILIENCE
The Role of Social Infrastructure
Advancing a Community-Based Participatory Climate Science: The Case of Urban Heat
4 HOW POLICIES AND INVESTMENTS SHAPE SPATIAL INJUSTICE AND DISPLACEMENT
5 PUBLIC SPACE 101 FOR CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS THAT CAN DRIVE CHANGE
Spatial Justice in Urban Planning
Spatial Justice in Planned Community Relocation
Spatial Justice in Logistics and Regional Port Economies
7 CLOSING REMARKS AND REFLECTIONS
Acronyms and Glossary
ACRONYMS
| BIPOC | Black, Indigenous, and People of Color |
| CBPR | community-based participatory research |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| UN | United Nations |
GLOSSARY
Epistemology: Described by Karen Umemoto as culture, knowledge systems, or ways of viewing, understanding, and relating to the world.
Spatial justice: “The fair and equitable distribution in space of socially valued resources and the opportunities to use them” (Soja, 2009).
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