About the Authors

Eric Q. Mooring

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

eqm183@mail.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Oriol Mitjà

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lihir Medical Centre-International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Division of Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Megan B. Murray

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

OM reports financial support for field-work implementation, data collection and laboratory analyses from Newcrest Mining during the conduct of the study. Newcrest Mining had no role in study design, data analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.