My second book, “Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol” is forthcoming with University of California Press in 2025. The book uses the case of Washington D.C. to examine how racial health inequality was produced from its founding in 1790 to 2022. I began working on this study in 2011, and it draws on a combination of data including life history interviews, key informant interviews, archival materials, longitudinal quantitative data including Census, Vital Statistics, crime and disease surveillance data, as well as historical and contemporary literature reviews. The book tells both the story of the city as well as of my study respondents, aiming to locate their lives, choices and health outcomes within the larger historical, political and social context of the city. I show how interacting policies such as those related to housing, land, transportation, education, crime, and taxation, among others, worked together to produce and reproduce disproportionate illness and death for African Americans throughout the city’s history.