About the Authors

Elizabeth A. Nash

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation MBBS Student, St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Julia A. Critchley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jcritchl@sgul.ac.uk

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Fiona Pearson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evidence Synthesis Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Susanne F. Awad

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Cornell University, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Laith J. Abu-Raddad

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Cornell University, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Farah M. Abu-Hijleh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Academic Quality Affairs Office, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Peijue Huangfu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.