About the Authors

Melissa B. Gilkey

gilkey@email.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Annie-Laurie McRee

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Brooke E. Magnus

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Paul L. Reiter

Affiliation Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Amanda F. Dempsey

Affiliation Adult and Child Centered Outcomes Research and Dissemination Science (ACCORDS) Program, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Noel T. Brewer

Affiliation Department of Health Behavior and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. PR has received HPV vaccine-related grants from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. and from Cervical Cancer-Free America whose funding came from an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline. AD serves on advisory boards for Merck and Pfizer, but has not received any research funding from these companies. NB has received HPV vaccine-related grants from or been on advisory boards for GlaxoSmithKline and Merck. MG, BM, and ALM have no disclosures to report. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE polices on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG BM NB. Analyzed the data: MG BM NB. Wrote the paper: MG ALM BM PR AD NB.