Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Gender Minority Stress to HIV Comorbidities Among Black and Latina Transgender Women (LITE Plus): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Longitudinal Study

Ashleigh J Rich   ¹ , MPH ;   Jennifer Williams   ² , PhD ;   Mannat Malik   ³ , MHS ;   Andrea Wirtz   ³ , MHS, PhD ;   Sari Reisner   ⁴ , MA, SCD ;   L Zachary DuBois   ⁵ , PhD ;   Robert Paul Juster   ⁶ , PhD ;   Catherine R Lesko   ³ , MPH, PhD ;   Nicole Davis   ² , MPH ;   Keri N Althoff   ³ , PhD ;   Christopher Cannon   ⁷ , MPH ;   Kenneth Mayer   ⁸ , MD ;   Ayana Elliott   ⁹ , DNP ;   Tonia Poteat   ² , MPH, PhD

¹ School of Population & Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

² Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

³ Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States

⁶ Department of Psychiatry and Addiction, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁷ Whitman Walker Health, Washington, DC, DC, United States

⁸ TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

⁹ National LGBT Health Education Center, Boston, MA, United States