Healthy and thriving: advancing anti-racism evidence and solutions to transform the health of Black communities

Residential segregation and the inter-related processes of disinvestment and dispossession
in Black communities are among the most visible manifestations of structural racism
in many racialised societies globally. Such segregation is one way that racism becomes
both embedded in the bricks and mortar and the social fabric of cities through a myriad
of historical and contemporary policies and institutional practices1–5 and embodied,
ultimately leading to health inequities between communities separated by relatively
short distances.

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