The neighborhood environment, encompassing the physical infrastructure, social fabric, and material resources, holds profound influence on people’s well-being. Dr. Gao’s research examines the relationships between structural drivers, place effects, and health equity; and integrates a historical and theory-driven conceptualization of the multi-level factors that produce health inequities with the application of epidemiologic and geospatial methods. This talk will discuss how historical redlining and contemporary gentrification, as sociopolitical mechanisms that operate within the constitutive systems of structural racism and racial capitalism, affect pregnancy-related outcomes in California. Dr. Xing Gao is President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.