Lessons From Building a Large, Public HIV-Related Database in Support of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the US Initiative

Victor Wang   ^{1 *} , MPH ;   Nikita Rao   ^{1 *} , PhD, MPH ;   Sheree R Schwartz   ² , PhD, MPH ;   Sten H Vermund   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Lien Quach   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Artur Queiroz   ³ , PhD ;   Sung-Jae Lee   ⁴ , PhD ;   Joyce L Jones   ⁵ , MS, MD ;   Debbie Humphries   ¹ , PhD, MPH, MA ;   Donna Spiegelman   ¹ , SCD

¹ Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

² Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

³ Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States

⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

*these authors contributed equally