About the Authors

Linda M. O’Keeffe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

linda.okeeffe@ucc.ie

Affiliations School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Joshua A. Bell

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Kate N. O’Neill

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Matthew A. Lee

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Mark Woodward

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Sanne A. E. Peters

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

George Davey Smith

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Patricia M. Kearney

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GDS is an Academic Editor on PLOS Medicine’s editorial board; MW is a consultant to Amgen, Freeline and Kyowa Kirin.