About the Authors

James A. Lopez Bernal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

james.lopez-bernal@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christine Y. Lu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Antonio Gasparrini

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Steven Cummins

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

J. Frank Wharham

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven B. Soumerai

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.