Enhanced Cohort Methods for HIV Research and Epidemiology (ENCORE): Protocol for a Nationwide Hybrid Cohort for Transgender Women in the United States

Andrea L Wirtz   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   Tonia Poteat   ⁴ , PhD ;   Annick Borquez   ⁵ , PhD ;   Sabriya Linton   ⁶ , PhD ;   Megan Stevenson   ¹ , MSPH ;   James Case   ⁷ , MBI ;   Carter Brown   ⁸ , BA ;   Arianna Lint   ⁹ , MS ;   Marissa Miller   ¹⁰ , BA ;   Asa Radix   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Keri N Althoff   ¹ , PhD ;   Jason S Schneider   ¹² , MD ;   J Sonya Haw   ¹³ , MD ;   Andrew J Wawrzyniak   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Allan Rodriguez   ¹⁵ , MD ;   Erin Cooney   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   Elizabeth Humes   ¹ , MHS ;   Ceza Pontes   ¹ , BS ;   Shannon Seopaul   ¹⁶ , MPH ;   Camille White   ¹ , BA ;   Chris Beyrer   ¹⁷ , MD ;   Sari L Reisner   ¹⁸ , ScD ;   ENCORE Study Group   ¹⁹

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

² Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

³ Department of Public Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Division of Healthcare in Adult Populations, Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, United States

⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

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

⁸ National Black Transgender Advocacy Coalition, Carrolton, TX, United States

⁹ Arianna's Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

¹⁰ Trans Solutions Research and Resource Center, Indianapolis, IN, United States

¹¹ Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY, United States

¹² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

¹³ Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

¹⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States

¹⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States

¹⁶ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹⁷ Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

¹⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MD, United States

¹⁹ See Acknowledgments, Baltimore, MD, United States