American Heart Association volunteer expert, Joel Kaufman, M.D., MPH, is professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Medicine, and Epidemiology and Editor, Environmental Health Perspectives at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation P224 copyright American Heart Association 2020 "So the issue here about communities that have more greenness have historically been communities that also have wealthier and more privileged communities living in them. So to some extent the role of greenness in communities does get tied up with other reasons for health disparities in our country. And I think thinking about that in this frame is also important because there's a lot of elements to the underpinnings of health that are related to longstanding disparities in this country. And the access to pleasant green spaces is actually probably one of those causes of health disparities as well."