About the Authors

Suzy Newton

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dejana Braithwaite

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Tomi F. Akinyemiju

tomiakin@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TA. Data curation: TA SN. Formal analysis: TA SN. Investigation: TA SN DB. Methodology: TA SN DB. Project administration: TA. Resources: TA. Software: TA. Supervision: TA. Validation: TA. Writing – original draft: SN TA. Writing – review & editing: TA SN DB.