About the Authors

Ambreen Sayani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ambreen.sayani@wchospital.ca

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mandana Vahabi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Mary Ann O’Brien

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Geoffrey Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stephen Hwang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter Selby

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Campbell Family Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Erika Nicholson

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Meredith Giuliani

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lawson Eng

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Aisha Lofters

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family Medicine, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

AS is supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. AL is supported by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, as Clinician Scientist by the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Toronto and as Chair of Implementation Science at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Women’s Cancers at Women’s College Hospital in partnership with the Canadian Cancer Society. AL is the Provincial Primary Care Lead for Cancer Screening at Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario). GL is supported by the Lusi Wong Early Detection of Lung Cancer Program and the Alan B. Brown Chair. GL has received funding from an unrestricted Boehringer Ingerheim grant to develop and implement electronic methods of identifying patients suitable for lung cancer screening in family physician offices. PS is a Clinician Scientist funded by Centre of Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care to direct the STOP program- An Ontario wide smoking cessation program focused on reducing inequities of access for discriminated and underrepresented populations. He also receives support from the Medical Psychiatry Alliance. He has independent grants from the GRAND program, created as an arms-length peer reviewed program for smoking cessation. He is an advisor to both Cancer Care Ontario and Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) on tobacco cessation in patients with Cancer. EN is an employee of the CPAC, a pan-Canadian health organization, funded by Health Canada. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.