ABOUT .

Since May 2022, there has been an outbreak of mpox (previously called monkeypox) among queer and trans people and our sexual networks in large cities around the world. MPX NYC is a campaign of Rapid Epidemiologic Study of Prevalence, Network, and Demographics of Mpox Infection (RESPND-MI), an anonymous, online survey that collected information of the social and spatial networks connecting queer and trans people in New York City.

RESPND-MI Study Team.


A collective of queer and trans experts innovating community-based participatory research.


Keletso Makofane, MPH, PhD

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR


Jennifer Barnes-Balenciaga

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Nicholas Diamond, MPH

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Seema Kara, MPH

CO-INVESTIGATOR

James Krellenstein

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Elle Lett, PhD, MA, MBiostat

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Ken Nadolski, MPH

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Cody Nolan, MD

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Robert Pitts, MD

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Grant Roth, MPH

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Sudipta Saha, MS

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Martez Smith, LMSW, PhD

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Nguyen Tran, MPH, PhD

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Christian Urrutia

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Antón Castellanos Usigli, MPH, PhD

CO-INVESTIGATOR

Chris Wyman

CO-INVESTIGATOR

RESPND-MI Reference Group.


An advisory council for the RESPND-MI Study Team.


Judith D. Auerbach, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Lisa Berkman, PhD

Harvard University

Forrest W. Crawford, PhD

Yale University

William C. Goedel, PhD

Brown University

Gregg Gonsalves, PhD

Yale University

Ian W. Holloway, PhD, LCSW, MPH

University of California, Los Angeles

Louise Ivers, MB, BCh, MD, MPH, DTMH

Massachusetts General Hospital

Lawrence C. Long, MCom, PhD

Boston University

Kenneth Mayer, MD

The Fenway Institute

Gregorio Millett, MPH

amfAR

Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

IN THE NEWS.

MPOX RESOURCES FOR AND BY QUEER AND TRANS COMMUNITIES.

Click below to access community-led tools for prevention, vaccines, treatment, and policy.

VOLUNTEER.

The RESPND-MI Study Team seeks volunteers to support MPX NYC.

CONTACT US.

  • RESPND-MI Principal Investigator

    keletso.makofane@gmail.com