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Article History

Received: 25 March 2024

Accepted: 19 June 2024

First Online: 2 July 2024

Declarations

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: The University of Michigan IRB approved this study in July 2013.All participants were aged 18 or older and provided informed consent. During the informed consent process, each participant provided a pseudonym that they approved for use when reporting illustrative quotes from interviews.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

: Alana M.W. LeBrón is Associate Professor of Health, Society, and Behavior and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship focuses on mechanisms by which structural racism shapes the health of communities of color, with a focus on policies, systems, and environments. Much of her scholarship involves community-based participatory research, working in partnership with members of affected communities to strengthen understanding of the ways in which structural racism shapes health inequities and to develop and evaluate strategies to advocate for structural change, mitigate the health impacts of structural racism, and create new systems to promote health equity.Amy J. Schulz is University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on social and physical environmental factors and their effects on health, health equity, and urban health. Much of her research is conducted with partners in Detroit, Michigan, using a community-based participatory research approach to understand and address drivers of excess cardiovascular risk through the Healthy Environments Partnership, conduct health impact assessments of proposed policies, and develop public health action plans to reduce air pollution and promote health in Detroit and surrounding areas.Cindy Gamboa is Community Organizing and Advocacy Director at the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation. A longstanding resident of Detroit, she has been serving the Southwest Detroit community for over a decade and received her bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Michigan at Dearborn. Previously, she was the Community Coordinator for the Healthy Environments Partnership, a longstanding community-based participatory research partnership working to understand and address excess cardiovascular risk in Detroit and was active in several collaborations, programs, and policy change initiatives to promote health equity.Angela Reyes is Executive Director and Founder of the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation. Born in Southwest Detroit, Michigan, she brings expertise in critical policy issues that affect residents of Southwest Detroit and other urban areas, including positive youth development, youth violence, substance abuse, immigration, educational reform, community organizing, and community-based participatory research. She received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan and is a founding and active member of the Healthy Environments Partnership.Edna Viruell-Fuentes was Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focused on Latina/o/é and immigrant health; transnational processes, practices, and methods; and structural determinants of health contexts, including neighborhoods and immigration policies.Barbara A. Israel is Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She has published widely in the areas of social and physical environmental determinants of health and health inequities; the relationship among stress, social support, and physical and mental health; and community-based participatory research. Since 1995, she has worked with academic and community partners to establish and maintain the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Detroit URC), which works to foster and support the development of equitable community-academic partnerships focused on understanding and addressing health inequities in Detroit.