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Dr. Kauh: Race and ethnicity data are so critical for understanding the health and well-being of everyone living in our nation. We are in the midst of an exciting time, where there is a major opportunity to actually impact how race and ethnicity data are collected, analyzed, reported, and disseminated to promote greater health equity. As we all know, the Office of Management and Budget, which is also known as the OMB, is considering for the first time in >25 years whether to update its current minimum standards for race and ethnicity. I want to keep saying that word, minimum standards, because I think that is really critical. I will start by asking Meeta, can you explain why this effort by the OMB to revise federal race and ethnicity minimum standards is so important?