Martin Bork, go

ahead.

Yeah, I'll start with the background.

So, you know, for many decades, we worked at the grassroots community level here on addressing health inequity in Berkeley.

We have an incredibly healthy community with dramatic and striking health disparities.

So things like a 20 year differential between black and white life expectancy and black people dying at twice the rate of white people in this in the city and from the report in 1998.

So, you know, a healthy community, but with some really significant problems.

I mean, was this decline anticipated?