Government Executive email Race continues to predict how well someone will do, and how much suffering they will endure. Adam Luecking | By Adam Luecking Equity, as defined by the research and advocacy group PolicyLink, is “just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential.” But recent events highlight just how elusive such inclusion is for too many people. We see the consequences play out in health and education disparities, poverty and incarceration rates, homelessness, addiction and countless other indicators of inequity. In America today, from infant mortality to life expectancy, race continues to predict how well someone will do and how much suffering they will endure. Self-policing our individual behavior is important, but to achieve equity, we must find systematic solutions. Those solutions will require interdisciplinary strategies focused on those most affected, and they must move beyond “services” to change policies, institutions and structures.