Understanding Patterns of Healthy Aging Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study

James E Egan   ^{1, 2 *} , BA, MPH, PhD ;   Sabina A Haberlen   ^{3 *} , BA, ScM, PhD ;   Steven Meanley   ^{4 *} , BA, MPH, PhD ;   Deanna Ware   ⁵ , BS, MPH ;   Andre L Brown   ^{1, 2 *} , BA, MPH, PhD ;   Daniel Siconolfi   ^{6 *} , BA, MPH, PhD ;   Mark Brennan-Ing   ⁷ , BA, MA, PhD ;   Ron Stall   ^{1, 2 *} , BA, MA, MPH, PhD ;   Michael W Plankey   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   M Reuel Friedman   ^{2, 8 *} , BA, MPH, PhD

¹ Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

² Center for LGBT Health Research, Grauate School for Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

³ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States

⁶ RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

⁷ Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, Hunter College, New York, NY, United States

⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

*these authors contributed equally