Healthy people require healthy environments. Peoples' health and well-being are largely determined by the environments where they live, work, play, and learn. The built environment – broadly defined as manmade surroundings that include buildings, public resources, land use patterns, the transportation system, and design features – has profound consequences for individual and community health. It impacts the availability of parks and recreation facilities, accessibility to healthy and affordable foods, the "walkability" and "bikability" of neighborhoods, and safe and affordable transportation options. The built environment impacts and influences the countless daily choices people make for themselves. Far too often, communities of color and low-income communities are faced with limited choices. Studies show that built environment features, such as close proximity to desirable (and useful) destinations like stores and services, have been strongly associated with people walking and bicycling as a means of transportation. There is also strong evidence supporting the creation and/or enhancement of places for physical activity – like parks or recreational facilities—as an effective intervention for increasing physical activity levels. Across the nation, public health organizations have focused their energies on land use planning, urban design and other aspects of the built environment—as broad as the patterns of growth in metropolitan regions and as narrow as the design of homes and playgrounds. Urban planners and elected officials who shape the footprint of their cities and counties, as well as builders—both nonprofit community developers and private market-rate developers—are also considering health issues as they create neighborhoods and revitalize others. An equitable approach to building healthy communities requires participation and support from a broad range of stakeholders. The Convergence Partnership --through national and regional efforts – can create healthy people in healthy places. To keep informed of this effort, other Convergence Partnership efforts, and the activities of our partners and the field, please sign up for the Healthy People, Healthy Places newsletter.