About the Authors

Houssein H. Ayoub

Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein H. Ayoub, Hiam Chemaitelly

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

hayoub@qu.edu.qa (HHA); lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu (LJA)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Hiam Chemaitelly

Contributed equally to this work with: Houssein H. Ayoub, Hiam Chemaitelly

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

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar

Shaheen Seedat

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Ghina R. Mumtaz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Monia Makhoul

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Laith J. Abu-Raddad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hayoub@qu.edu.qa (HHA); lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu (LJA)

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics on HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Viral Hepatitis, Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation – Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.