About the Authors

DeMarc A. Hickson

dhickson@mbk-inc.org

Affiliations Center for Research, Evaluation and Environmental & Policy Change, My Brother's Keeper, Inc, 510 George Street, Unit 100, Jackson, MS, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39213, United States of America

Nhan L. Truong

Affiliation Center for Research, Evaluation and Environmental & Policy Change, My Brother's Keeper, Inc, 510 George Street, Unit 100, Jackson, MS, United States of America

Neena Smith-Bankhead

Affiliation R.E.D. Institute, AID Atlanta, Inc., 1605 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, United States of America

Nikendrick Sturdevant

Affiliation Center for Research, Evaluation and Environmental & Policy Change, My Brother's Keeper, Inc, 510 George Street, Unit 100, Jackson, MS, United States of America

Dustin T. Duncan

Affiliation Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, 227 E 30th Street Room 621, New York, NY, 10016, United States of America

Jordan Schnorr

Affiliation R.E.D. Institute, AID Atlanta, Inc., 1605 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309, United States of America

June A. Gipson

Affiliation Center for Community-Based Programs, My Brother's Keeper, Inc, 710 Avignon Drive, Ridgeland, MS, United States of America

Leandro A. Mena

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39213, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAH. Performed the experiments: NS JS. Analyzed the data: NLT DAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAH JAG. Wrote the paper: DAH NLT NSB NS DTD JS JAG LAM. Senior supervision of study: LAM. Senior supervision of data analysis and responsible for results: DAH.