Identification of Key Influencers for Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-Testing Kits Among Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: Development of an Ensemble Machine Learning Approach

Fengshi Jing   ^{1, 2, 3, 4 *} , PhD ;   Yang Ye   ^{4, 5 *} , PhD ;   Yi Zhou   ^{6 *} , DPH ;   Yuxin Ni   ^{3, 7} , MPH ;   Xumeng Yan   ^{3, 8} , MA ;   Ying Lu   ³ , MA ;   Jason Ong   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Joseph D Tucker   ^{3, 9, 11} , PhD ;   Dan Wu   ^{3, 12} , PhD ;   Yuan Xiong   ^{3, 13} , MSW ;   Chen Xu   ³ , MPH ;   Xi He   ¹⁴ , BEng ;   Shanzi Huang   ⁶ , MD ;   Xiaofeng Li   ⁶ , MD ;   Hongbo Jiang   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Cheng Wang   ¹⁶ , PhD ;   Wencan Dai   ⁶ , MD ;   Liqun Huang   ⁶ , MD ;   Wenhua Mei   ⁶ , MD ;   Weibin Cheng   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Qingpeng Zhang   ^{17 *} , PhD ;   Weiming Tang   ^{1, 3, 11 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Institute for Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Application, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

² Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macao Special Administrative Region, China

³ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-China, Guangzhou, China

⁴ School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

⁵ Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Department of HIV Prevention, Zhuhai Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Zhuhai, China

⁷ School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

⁸ Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁹ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

¹⁰ Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Australia

¹¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

¹² School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

¹³ School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

¹⁴ Zhuhai Xutong Voluntary Services Center, Zhuhai, China

¹⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China

¹⁶ Dermatology Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

¹⁷ Institute of Data Science and Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

*these authors contributed equally