Office of Medical Education, Office of Medical Student Research (Ms LoIacono Merves), and Department of Pediatrics, Preventive Intervention Research Center (Mss LoIacono Merves and Sclafane and Drs Rodgers, Silver, Bauman), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
Correspondence: Marni LoIacono Merves, MSW, MA, Office of Medical Student Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Block Bldg. Rm. 505, Bronx, NY 10461 ([email protected]).
The project described was supported by Award Number R24MD001784 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities or the National Institutes of Health. There are no conflicts of interests for any of the authors.
We thank the entire Bronx Youth as Partners (BYAP) project team, Albert's Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT), and our BYAP Coalition. In particular, we are enormously grateful to the wonderful, enthusiastic, and highly committed A.L.O.T. teenagers who partnered with us; without them, our project and this article would not be possible.
