Reply to Drs. Hart and Cadet: we agree-the challenges of increasing equity, diversity and inclusion include societal issues and actions now are vital

Affiliations

• ¹ PinneyAssociates and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4800 Montgomery Lane, Suite 400, Bethesda, MD, 20184, USA. [email protected].
• ² Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, 4235 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
• ³ Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, 909 Wilson Road Room B601, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
• ⁴ START Treatment & Recovery Centers, 22 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA.
• ⁵ Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive #120, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
• ⁶ University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, College of Pharmacy, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
• ⁷ Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Flint, MI, 48502, USA.
• ⁸ The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA.
• ⁹ University of Minnesota Medical School and Masonic Cancer Center, 717 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, USA.
• ¹⁰ National Institute of Mental Health, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.