Laying the groundwork to make diversity, equity, and inclusion front and center in clinical and translational research

Leonard E Egede^{1

2}, Raquel Ruiz³, Elise Mosley-Johnson^{1

2}, Sergio A Aguilar-Gaxiola⁴, Giselle M Corbie⁵, Consuelo H Wilkins⁶, Alfred Vitale^{7

8}, L Ebony Boulware³

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
² Center for Advancing Population Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
³ Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.
⁵ University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁶ Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁷ University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Rochester, NY, USA.
⁸ Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC), CTSA Program Coordinating Center, Rochester, NY, USA.

Editorial

Leonard E Egede et al. J Clin Transl Sci. 2023.

. 2023 Apr 24;7(1):e95.

doi: 10.1017/cts.2023.524. eCollection 2023.

Leonard E Egede^{1

2}, Raquel Ruiz³, Elise Mosley-Johnson^{1

2}, Sergio A Aguilar-Gaxiola⁴, Giselle M Corbie⁵, Consuelo H Wilkins⁶, Alfred Vitale^{7

8}, L Ebony Boulware³

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
² Center for Advancing Population Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
³ Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA.
⁵ University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
⁶ Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁷ University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Rochester, NY, USA.
⁸ Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC), CTSA Program Coordinating Center, Rochester, NY, USA.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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