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Alan Neaigus, PhD, MCRP, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York City, NY 10032. Email: an2118@columbia.edu
The authors would like to acknowledge and thank the following people: Sarah Braunstein, PhD, MPH, Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, Jay Varma, MD, and James Hadler, MD, of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and Kent Sepkowitz, MD, who reviewed earlier drafts of the article. Also, we would like to acknowledge and thank: Denise Paone, EdD, and Emily Winkelstein, MSW, of the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention, Care, and Treatment at the NYC DOHMH, who provided information on the Peer-Delivered Syringe Exchange program in NYC; Christopher S. Murrill, PhD, MPH, who is now with the CDC, for directing the 2005 cycle of NHBS in NYC; Maria C. B. Mendoza of the CDC, who provided guidance on time trend analysis; and Elizabeth DiNenno, PhD, Amy Drake, MPH, Amy Lansky, PhD, MPH, Isa Miles, ScD, Dita Broz, PhD, MPH, Alexandra Oster, MD, and Gabriela Paz-Bailey, MD, MSc, PhD, of the CDC, who contributed to the NHBS study design locally and nationally and provided guidance for the implementation of the study in NYC. The study would not have been possible without the efforts of the NYC NHBS field staff and the study participants who consented to be in the study.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
This research was funded by a cooperative agreement between the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Grant #U62/CCU223595-03-1.