The Diabetes Location, Environmental Attributes, and Disparities Network: Protocol for Nested Case Control and Cohort Studies, Rationale, and Baseline Characteristics

Annemarie G Hirsch   ¹ , MPH, PhD ;   April P Carson   ² , MPH, PhD ;   Nora L Lee   ³ , PhD ;   Tara McAlexander   ³ , MPH, PhD ;   Carla Mercado   ⁴ , PhD ;   Karen Siegel   ⁴ , MPH, PhD ;   Nyesha C Black   ⁵ , PhD ;   Brian Elbel   ⁶ , MPH, PhD ;   D Leann Long   ⁷ , MS, PhD ;   Priscilla Lopez   ⁶ , MPH ;   Leslie A McClure   ³ , MS, PhD ;   Melissa N Poulsen   ¹ , MPH, PhD ;   Brian S Schwartz   ^{1, 8} , MS, MD ;   Lorna E Thorpe   ⁶ , MPH, PhD

¹ Department of Population Health Sciences, Geisinger, Danville, PA, United States

² Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, United States

³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁴ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, PA, United States

⁵ Noire Analytics, LLC, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁶ Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, United States

⁷ Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁸ Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States