About the Authors

Nicole Bertges

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Sachiyo Shearman

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

Affiliation School of Communication, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Satomi Imai

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Jo Anne G. Balanay

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

Affiliation Department of Health Education and Promotion, Environmental Health Sciences Program, College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Sinan Sousan

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

sousans18@ecu.edu

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Agromedicine Institute, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Human Health and the Environment, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.