About the Authors

Shanshan Li

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

Affiliation Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Laura D. Kubzansky

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tyler J. VanderWeele

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

tvanderw@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.