HIV Clustering in Mississippi: Spatial Epidemiological Study to Inform Implementation Science in the Deep South

Thomas J Stopka   ^{1, 2} , MHS, PhD ;   Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Kendra Johnson   ⁵ , MPH ;   Philip A Chan   ^{6, 7} , MS, MD ;   Marga Hutcheson   ¹ , MA ;   Richard Crosby   ⁸ , PhD ;   Deirdre Burke   ¹ , MPH ;   Leandro Mena   ⁹ , MD, MPH ;   Amy Nunn   ^{6, 7, 10} , MS, ScD

¹ Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States

² Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁴ Center for Health Equity Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁵ Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, MS, United States

⁶ School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁷ Department of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁸ College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

⁹ John D Bower School of Population Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, United States

¹⁰ Rhode Island Public Health Institute, Providence, RI, United States