About the Authors

Mykhaylo Usyk

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

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics (Genetic Medicine), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Christine P. Zolnik

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics (Genetic Medicine), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Philip E. Castle

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Carolina Porras

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agencia Costarricense de Investigaciones Biomédicas (ACIB), formerly Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Fundación INCIENSA, San José, Costa Rica

Rolando Herrero

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Prevention and Implementation Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

Ana Gradissimo

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics (Genetic Medicine), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Paula Gonzalez

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agencia Costarricense de Investigaciones Biomédicas (ACIB), formerly Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Fundación INCIENSA, San José, Costa Rica

Mahboobeh Safaeian

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Pleasanton, California, United States of America

Mark Schiffman

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert D. Burk

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

robert.burk@einsteinmed.org

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics (Genetic Medicine), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial (CVT) Group

Members of the Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial (CVT) Group are listed in the Acknowledgements Section of the Manuscript

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: John T. Schiller and Douglas R. Lowy report that they are named inventors on US Government-owned HPV vaccine patents that are licensed to GlaxoSmithKline and Merck and for which the National Cancer Institute receives licensing fees. They are entitled to limited royalties as specified by federal law.