About the Authors

Peter V. Coyle

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu (LJAR); pcoyle@hamad.qa (PVC)

Affiliations Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom

Reham Awni El Kahlout

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Soha R. Dargham

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar

Hiam Chemaitelly

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

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar

Mohamed Ali Ben Hadj Kacem

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Naema Hassan Abdulla Al-Mawlawi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Imtiaz Gilliani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Nourah Younes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Zaina Al Kanaani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Abdullatif Al Khal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Einas Al Kuwari

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Andrew Jeremijenko

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Anvar Hassan Kaleeckal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Ali Nizar Latif

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Riyazuddin Mohammad Shaik

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Hanan F. Abdul Rahim

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Gheyath K. Nasrallah

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, Member of QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Hadi M. Yassine

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, Member of QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Mohamed G. Al Kuwari

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Primary Health Care Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Hamad Eid Al Romaihi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

Patrick Tang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

Roberto Bertollini

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

Mohamed H. Al-Thani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar

Laith J. Abu-Raddad

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

lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu (LJAR); pcoyle@hamad.qa (PVC)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.