Published on in Vol 10, No 4 (2021): April

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/29152, first published .
Digital Epidemiologic Research on Multilevel Risks for HIV Acquisition and Other Health Outcomes Among Transgender Women in Eastern and Southern United States: Protocol for an Online Cohort

Digital Epidemiologic Research on Multilevel Risks for HIV Acquisition and Other Health Outcomes Among Transgender Women in Eastern and Southern United States: Protocol for an Online Cohort

Digital Epidemiologic Research on Multilevel Risks for HIV Acquisition and Other Health Outcomes Among Transgender Women in Eastern and Southern United States: Protocol for an Online Cohort

Andrea L Wirtz   1 , PhD ;   Erin E Cooney   1 , MSPH ;   Megan Stevenson   1 , MSPH ;   Asa Radix   2 , MD, PhD ;   Tonia Poteat   3 , PhD, PA-C ;   Andrew J Wawrzyniak   4 , PhD ;   Christopher M Cannon   5 , MPH ;   Jason S Schneider   6 , MD ;   J Sonya Haw   6 , MD ;   James Case   7 , MBI ;   Keri N Althoff   1 , PhD ;   Elizabeth Humes   1 , MHS ;   Kenneth H Mayer   8, 9 , MD ;   Chris Beyrer   1 , MD ;   Allan E Rodriguez   10 , MD ;   Sari L Reisner   9, 11, 12, 13 , SCD ;   American Cohort To Study HIV Acquisition Among Transgender Women (LITE) Study Group   1

1 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

2 Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY, United States

3 Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

4 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States

5 Research and Evaluation, Whitman-Walker Institute, Washington DC, DC, United States

6 Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States

7 School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

8 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

9 The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, MA, United States

10 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States

11 Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

12 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

13 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Andrea L Wirtz, PhD
  • Department of Epidemiology
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