Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it even clearer that place is crucial for health, and that people who live in and/or navigate certain kinds of places suffer from heightened health vulnerabilities, and indeed, often longstanding inequities (Rollston & Galea, Citation2020, Williams, Citation2020). An intersectoral approach known as "Health in All Policies” (HiAP) (WHO, Citation2008, Citation2013) has been one important way that policy makers and practitioners, concerned with vulnerabilities to poor health and persistent health inequities, have tried to engage professionals in such sectors as urban planning, transportation, and environmental quality to acknowledge the significance of place for health. The HiAP approach, although promising, has been hard to realize however. We suggest that – especially in relation to the built environment – intersectoral approaches can be supported by embracing "ethical placemaking” (EPM) (Eckenwiler, Citation2016, Citation2018, Citation2021). In other words, we propose this ethical ideal and practice as a shared vision for intersectoral efforts involving urban planning policy and practice aimed at health and health equity. We first briefly argue why intersectoral approaches are essential to achieve health equity. Subsequently, we discuss three challenges identified by others to successful intersectoral approaches to health equity, relating these to the HiAP framework.We then explain the ideal and practice of ethical placemaking (EPM) and describe how it could help to overcome these barriers.