Leveraging family-based assets for Black men who have sex with men in House Ball Communities: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

• Jeffrey Birnbaum ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey Birnbaum, LaRon E. Nelson

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• Michael Roberson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy, Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Marlon M. Bailey,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of African and African-American Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Women and Gender Studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

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• Martez D. R. Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, School of Nursing, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1624-5921

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• DeAnne Turner,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6987-6065

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• Han-Zhu Qian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Sangchoon Jeon,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2855-2053

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• Sabina Hirshfield,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, STAR Program, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• LaRon E. Nelson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jeffrey Birnbaum, LaRon E. Nelson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: laron.nelson@yale.edu

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2630-602X

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