Article published in Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open (TSACO) “Examining our lens: how bias heightens disparities in trauma research”, June 2025. This paper is a product of the August 2023, Summit on the Advancement of Focused Equity Research (SAFER) meeting hosted/coordinated by Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR). ATS Board member Garrett Hall was an ATS representative at the SAFER event and is a coauthor on this paper.