About the Authors

Mehrdad Khezri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

mehrdad.khezri@nyu.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America, HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Courtney McKnight

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America, Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, New York, NY, United States of America

Chenziheng Allen Weng

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America

Sarah Kimball

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America

Don Des Jarlais

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America, Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

No conflict of interest to report or declare.