About the Authors

Lara R. Fairall

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara R. Fairall, Naomi Folb

Lara.Fairall@uct.ac.za

Affiliations Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Naomi Folb

Contributed equally to this work with: Lara R. Fairall, Naomi Folb

Affiliations Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Venessa Timmerman

Affiliation Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa

Carl Lombard

Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Krisela Steyn

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Max O. Bachmann

Affiliation Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Eric D. Bateman

Affiliations Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Crick Lund

Affiliation Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Ruth Cornick

Affiliation Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa

Gill Faris

Affiliation Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa

Thomas Gaziano

Affiliations Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Daniella Georgeu-Pepper

Affiliation Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa

Merrick Zwarenstein

Affiliation Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Naomi S. Levitt

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LF NF CLo KS MB EB CLu TG MZ NL. Data curation: NF VT LF CLo MB. Formal analysis: CLo LF NF MB. Funding acquisition: LF KS EB CLu TG NL. Investigation: LF NF VT NL KS DGP. Methodology: LF NF VT CLo KS MB EB CLu RC GF TG DGP MZ NL. Project administration: LF NF NL KS VT. Resources: LF NF. Software: VT NF LF CLo MB. Supervision: LF NF NL KS VT. Validation: CLo LF NF MB VT NL KS. Visualization: LF NF EB CLo MB NL KS. Writing – original draft: LF NF. Writing – review & editing: LF NF VT CLo KS MB EB CLu RC GF TG DGP MZ NL.