About the Authors

Goodarz Danaei

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric L. Ding

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dariush Mozaffarian

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ben Taylor

Affiliations Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Jürgen Rehm

Affiliations Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Christopher J. L. Murray

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Majid Ezzati

majid_ezzati@harvard.edu

Affiliations Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The Academic Editor declares that he had no competing interests when the first version of this paper was submitted. After a revised version was submitted, he started working on the global burden of disease from climate change project at the WHO in Geneva. Majid Ezzati is also working on the Global Burden of Disease project.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: GD ELD DM BT JR CJLM ME. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: GD ELD DM BT JR CJLM ME. Designed the experiments/the study: GD CJLM ME. Analyzed the data: GD ELD DM BT JR. Wrote the first draft of the paper: GD ME. Contributed to the writing of the paper: ELD DM BT JR CJLM. Supervised the research: ME. Participated in collecting data on nutritional exposures and relative risks related to the risk estimates: GD ELD DM. Collected specific data relevant to the alcohol section of the paper: JR BT.