About the Authors

Robin Schaefer

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rschaefer@forumresearch.org

Affiliation Forum for Collaborative Research, University of California, Berkeley, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Logan Donaldson

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forum for Collaborative Research, University of California, Berkeley, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Mitchell Leus

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forum for Collaborative Research, University of California, Berkeley, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Chukwunomso E. Osakwe

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forum for Collaborative Research, University of California, Berkeley, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Benjamin Chimukangara

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shona Dalal

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis, and STIs Programmes, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Ann Duerr

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Fei Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David V. Glidden

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Beatriz Grinsztejn

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (INI-Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jessica Justman

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Grace Kumwenda

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AVAC, Southern Region, Malawi

Oliver Laeyendecker

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ha Youn Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Frank Maldarelli

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kenneth H. Mayer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey Murray

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent consultant, Lewes, Delaware, United States of America

Bharat S. Parekh

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Brian Rice

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Michael N. Robertson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation BDI Consulting, Nipomo, California, United States of America

Suzue Saito

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Vani Vannappagari

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ViiV Healthcare, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mitchell Warren

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AVAC, New York, New York, United States of America

Diana Zeballos

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Jörg Zinserling

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, Bonn, Germany

Veronica Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Forum for Collaborative Research, University of California, Berkeley, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests to declare: Forum for Collaborative Research, as an organization, receives grants from the pharmaceutical industry but these are unrestricted and not specific to the work described in this article. KHM has received unrestricted research grants from Gilead Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., and ViiV Healthcare. JM is a paid consultant for both Gilead Sciences in the area of HIV prevention. BSP, as an inventor of the LAg-Avidity EIA at CDC, receives a portion of the royalties from the sale of the test kits, as per policy of the U.S. government. MNR received consulting fees from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, the Forum for Collaborative research, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in 2024. VV is a full-time employee of ViiV Healthcare and owns GSK stock. HYL received NIH NIAID grant support for genomic HIV incidence assay research. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.