About the Authors

Anita Raj

anitaraj@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Clinical Addiction Research and Education, Boston, MA, United States of America

Lotus McDougal

Affiliations Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Jay G. Silverman

Affiliations Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, United States of America, Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Melanie L. A. Rusch

Affiliation Vancouver Island Health Authority, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR LM JS. Analyzed the data: LM MR. Wrote the paper: AR LM JS MR.