About the Authors

Anna C. Rivara

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

anna.rivara@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Omar Galárraga

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

Affiliation Department of Health Services Policy and Practice, and International Health Institute, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Melania Selu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Obesity Lifestyle and Genetic Adaptations (OLaGA) Research Center, Apia, Samoa

Maria Arorae

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Obesity Lifestyle and Genetic Adaptations (OLaGA) Research Center, Apia, Samoa

Ruiyan Wang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kima Faasalele-Savusa

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Obesity Lifestyle and Genetic Adaptations (OLaGA) Research Center, Apia, Samoa

Rochelle Rosen

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centers for Behavioral and Preventative Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University, School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Nicola L. Hawley

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ NLH and SV contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Satupaitea Viali

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ NLH and SV contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, School of Medicine, National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.