About the Authors

Helen Mason

Helen.mason@gcu.ac.uk

Affiliation Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Azza Shoaibi

Affiliation Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory

Rula Ghandour

Affiliation Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory

Martin O'Flaherty

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simon Capewell

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Policy, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Rana Khatib

Affiliation Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory

Samer Jabr

Affiliation Department of Health Economics, Ministry of Health, Nablus, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory

Belgin Unal

Affiliation Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, İnciraltı- İzmir, Turkiye

Kaan Sözmen

Affiliation Narlidere Community Health Center, Provincial Health Directorate of Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

Chokri Arfa

Affiliation INTES/University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

Wafa Aissi

Affiliation Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Habiba Ben Romdhane

Affiliation Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Fouad Fouad

Affiliation Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, Aleppo, Syria

Radwan Al-Ali

Affiliation Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, Aleppo, Syria

Abdullatif Husseini

Affiliations Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine, Occupied Palestinian territory, Public Health Program, Department of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

the MedCHAMPS project team

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HM AS RG MOF SC RK AH. Performed the experiments: HM AS RG MOF SC RK SJ BU KS CA WA HBR RAA FF AH. Analyzed the data: HM AS RG MOF SC RK AH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HM AS RG MOF SC RK SJ BU KS CA WA HBR RAA FF AH. Wrote the paper: HM AS RG MOF SC RK SJ BU KS CA WA HBR RAA FF AH.