About the Authors

Marino A. Bruce

marino.bruce@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Center for Research on Men’s Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

David Martins

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kenrik Duru

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bettina M. Beech

Affiliation Department of Population Health Science, John D. Bower School of Population Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Mario Sims

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Nina Harawa

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Roberto Vargas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Dulcie Kermah

Affiliation Department of Research and Life Science Institute, Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Susanne B. Nicholas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Arleen Brown

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Keith C. Norris

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MB KN. Data curation: DK. Formal analysis: MB DM KD BB MS NH RV DK SN AB KN. Funding acquisition: MB BB MS SN KN. Investigation: MB DK KN. Methodology: MB DK KN. Project administration: MB KN. Supervision: MB KN. Validation: MB KN. Writing – original draft: MB DM KD BB MS NH RV DK SN AB KN. Writing – review & editing: MB DM KD BB MS NH RV DK SN AB KN.