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7 Closing Remarks and Reflections
Pages 75-76

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... Bibbins-Domingo noted the roundtable is committed to sponsoring population health workshops and that "we have just finished a rich, riveting, and deeply nuanced discussion of spatial justice." She thanked organizers, speakers, moderators, staff, and audience for their help in developing the themes that arose from this discussion. Bibbins-Domingo recapped some of these key themes, noting that "we have learned about our history and why history is not just a series of events, but rather entrenched and reinforcing structures that include serial displacement, rupture, and dispossession of many marginalized communities." She added that events cannot be disassociated from these structures, which need to be made visible to engage in spatial justice.
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... She asked, "whether we are talking about the impacts and ongoing realities of the global pandemic, the impending lifting of the eviction moratorium, or the latest manifestations of the climate crisis in heat, fire, and water events, who suffers, who dies, and who is displaced? " Bibbins-Domingo noted that "the urgency of these crises and the … deep inequities in our responses" requires recommitting to and centering the following principles: that "all individuals have the right to be protected from climate-induced events"; that the burden must shift "away from individuals to systemic processes, organizational policies, and management practices" that deliberately focus on historically marginalized communities; and that a public health model of prevention be adopted "as the preferred strategy to eliminate threats before they occur." Bibbins-Domingo noted that the workshop conversations have been interdisciplinary and that solutions to the problems discussed "will require the same type of interdisciplinary discussions and cross-sector collaborations," including many professions and types of knowledge, joint advocacy, and "community knowledge and representation of those disproportionately affected by these crises." She concluded the workshop by noting the challenge for those in the health sector "is to engage and to help foster this collective action to address the very urgent population health crises that we are facing, grounded in the principles of spatial justice."
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