About the Authors

Marcia H. Varella

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcia H. Varella, Noël C. Barengo, Juan M. Acuna

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

Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

Olyn A. Andrade

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ OAA, SMS, GC and PR also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation American University of Antigua College of Medicine, United States of America

Sydney M. Shaffer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ OAA, SMS, GC and PR also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation American University of Antigua College of Medicine, United States of America

Grettel Castro

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ OAA, SMS, GC and PR also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

Pura Rodriguez

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ OAA, SMS, GC and PR also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

Noël C. Barengo

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcia H. Varella, Noël C. Barengo, Juan M. Acuna

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Juan M. Acuna

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcia H. Varella, Noël C. Barengo, Juan M. Acuna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juan.acuna@ku.ac.ae

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Aw 8474000331 R-DISC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, CRUSADA, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.