Understanding Lupus Disparities Through a Social Determinants of Health Framework: The Georgians Organized Against Lupus Research Cohort.

Limitations in the ability to assemble large cohorts of patients with lupus from previously underrepresented groups have inhibited better understanding of many unanswered questions. The Georgians Organized Against Lupus (GOAL) Research Cohort is designed to overcome many of these limitations and is a rich and diverse repository of clinical, biological, sociodemographic, psychosocial, and health services data, and biologic material. Studies with the GOAL cohort will improve the understanding of how various factors interact and may lead to interventions on an individual and systems and societal level and help to mitigate the significant disparities that continue to exist in lupus.