Prospective Evaluation of Routine Statewide Integration of Molecular Epidemiology and Contact Tracing to Disrupt Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission
Attempting to reinterview all statewide new HIV diagnoses in molecular clusters showed no evidence of improving contact tracing. However, a strong academic-public health partnership enabled near real-time, longitudinal integration of molecular cluster analysis into routine public health activities, and identified barriers and opportunities tailoring data-driven approaches to unique individual and community characteristics, guiding future work on optimal use of molecular epidemiology to disrupt HIV transmission.
Authors
- Rami Kantor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3659-1108)
- August Guang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4974-1873)
- Lila Bhattarai
- John P Fulton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7114-8390)
- Joel Hague (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-6756)
- Mark Howison (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0764-4090)
- Fizza S. Gillani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7156-153X)
- Utpala Bandy
- Aditya Khanna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1049-3374)
- Thomas Bertrand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8693-8478)
- Joseph W. Hogan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7959-7361)
- Jon A. Steingrimsson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2116-9377)
- Casey W. Dunn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0628-5150)
- Meghan MacAskill
- Vladimir Novitsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4279-9071)
Institutions
- Rhode Island Department of Health (US)
- Providence College (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Yale University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2024-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae599
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.72
Funders
- National Institutes of Health