In this conversation, each panelist is asked to mention one thing they believe might actually improve within the next year. A few focus on 3-5 year fixes, but most offer a progress steps that can be attainable within the next year if enough of the right people dedicate focus to them.

Suggestions include: looking at epigenetics to determine whether there are non-Hispanic Black American families with genetic markers for disease and how these may be addressed through diet and other lifetsyle issues (Zaki Sherif); organizing a disciplinary group inside NIH to fund a multi-center study on this issue (Donna Cryer); ensuring that NAIL-NIT and other trials that are currently in recruitment phase include a large enough subsample to study this population (Louise Campbell); developing and beginning to implement plans for specific activities that will reduce health inequity (Ani Kardashian); separately, (i) for drug companies to invest in learning the specific issues related to NASH that affect this community and (ii) empowering patients through education and outreach (Yani Adere); and enable Global Liver Institute and other organizations to become “clearinghouse[s]” for good ideas to flourish in efforts that attract groups with common interests and focus to this larger conversation (Roger Green).