About the Authors

Beryl A. Koblin

bkoblin@nybloodcenter.org

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

James E. Egan

Affiliation Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrew Rundle

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

James Quinn

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hong-Van Tieu

Affiliations Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Magdalena Cerdá

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Danielle C. Ompad

Affiliation Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) and Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Emily Greene

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Laboratory of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Donald R. Hoover

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Biostatistics and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Victoria Frye

Affiliations Laboratory of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAK JEE MC AR DRH VF. Analyzed the data: BAK JEE JQ DRH VF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR JQ. Wrote the paper: BAK JEE VF H-VT MC DCO EG.