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Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP

Jason Corburn is with the Urban Public Health Program, Hunter College, City University of New York, and the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Hunter College, 425 E 25th St, Room 724w, New York, NY 10010 (e-mail: jcorburn{at}hunter.cuny.edu)

Although public health and urban planning emerged with the common goal of preventing urban outbreaks of infectious disease, there is little overlap between the fields today. The separation of the fields has contributed to uncoordinated efforts to address the health of urban populations and a general failure to recognize the links between, for example, the built environment and health disparities facing low-income populations and people of color.

I review the historic connections and lack thereof between urban planning and public health, highlight some challenges facing efforts to recouple the fields, and suggest that insights from ecosocial theory and environmental justice offer a preliminary framework for reconnecting the fields around a social justice agenda.

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