About the Authors

Parya Jangipour Afshar

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

Affiliation 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

Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Hamid Sharifi

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); vayazdi@gmail.com (VYF)

Affiliation Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Zahra Abdolahinia

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Student Research Committee, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

AliAkbar Haghdoost

Roles Writing – review & editing, Validation

Affiliation

Jaason M. Geerts

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vice-President, Research and Leadership Development, The Canadian College of Health Leaders, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Associate, University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Adjunct professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Reza Goudarzi

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Katayoun Tayeri

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Specialist, Clinical HIV/AIDS Fellowship, National HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Advisor, Ministry of Health, Tehran, Iran

Babak Eshrati

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hamid Sharifi

Contributed equally to this work with: Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Hamid Sharifi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); vayazdi@gmail.com (VYF)

Affiliation 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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.