About the Authors

Obidimma Ezezika

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

oezezika@uwo.ca

Affiliations Global Health & Innovation Lab, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, Department of Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada

Toluwalope Adedugbe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Federation of Black Canadians, Canada

Isaac Jonas

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Federation of Black Canadians, Canada

Meron Mengistu

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health & Innovation Lab, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Tatyana Graham

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Global Health & Innovation Lab, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Bethelehem Girmay

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Global Health & Innovation Lab, School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Yanaminah Thullah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Federation of Black Canadians, Canada

Chris Thompson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Federation of Black Canadians, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.