About the Authors

Hawazin W. Elani

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

hawazin_elani@hsdm.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

André F. M. Batista

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Sao Paulo Public Health School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

W. Murray Thomson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Ichiro Kawachi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexandre D. P. Chiavegatto Filho

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Sao Paulo Public Health School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.