I think a few new opportunities have been presented to Veterans Affairs on how we can engage with the women veteran community and subpopulations within that community. One of the key takeaways for me from the most recent women veterans' forum in February 2023—just last month—was the need for inclusion of under-represented voices in research.
VAC has come a long way in broadening the available data, and we are able to disaggregate our analysis in many measures, but we want to push that closer to what we would call “participatory research”. For this purpose, our research staff will be engaging with the veteran community in the coming months to fill in the human narrative that isn't captured in our statistical data.
Perhaps, Dr. Garland Baird, you want to add a comment.