About the Authors

Christopher J. L. Murray

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

Julie Knoll Rajaratnam

jrajarat@u.washington.edu

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

Jacob Marcus

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

Thomas Laakso

Affiliation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan D. Lopez

Affiliation School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

Alan Lopez is on the Editorial Board of PLoS Medicine.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: CJLM JKR JM TL ADL. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: CJLM JKR JM TL ADL. Designed the experiments/the study: CJLM TL ADL. Analyzed the data: CJLM JKR JM TL ADL. Collected data/did experiments for the study: JM TL. Contributed to the writing of the paper: CJLM JKR JM ADL.