The women’s health needs study among women from countries with high prevalence of female genital mutilation living in the United States: Design, methods, and participant characteristics

• Ghenet Besera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ghenet Besera, Margaret Christine Snead, Ekwutosi Okoroh

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Margaret Christine Snead ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ghenet Besera, Margaret Christine Snead, Ekwutosi Okoroh

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

  * E-mail: msnead@cdc.gov

  Current address: 4770 Buford Highway NE, Mailstop S107–2, Atlanta, Georgia 30341–3724, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5020-3311

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• Mary Goodwin,

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

  Affiliation Independent Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ashley Smoots,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Connie L. Bish,

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

  Affiliation Independent Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Alicia Ruiz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ayeesha Sayyad,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Sabrina Avripas,

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

  Affiliation NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Petry Ubri,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Roy Ahn,

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

  Affiliation NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Vicki Pineau,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Nicole Warren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Doris Mukangu,

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

  Affiliation Amani Women Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Crista E. Johnson-Agbakwu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Collaborative in Health Equity, Office of Health Equity, The University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Obstetrics & Gynecology, UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Howard Goldberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ekwutosi Okoroh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ghenet Besera, Margaret Christine Snead, Ekwutosi Okoroh

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

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• on behalf of The WHNS Study Team

  ¶Membership of The WHNS Study Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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