About the Authors

Riyadh Lafta

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

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Al Mustansiriya University, Baghdad, Iraq

Maha A. Al-Nuaimi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Research and Treatment of Blood Diseases, Baghdad, Iraq

Gilbert Burnham

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gburnha1@jhu.edu

Affiliation Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.