About the Authors

Casey Olives

colives@uw.edu

Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rebecca Myerson

Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ali H. Mokdad

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher J. L. Murray

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen S. Lim

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CO RM AHM CJLM SSL. Performed the experiments: CO RM. Analyzed the data: CO RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CO RM AHM CJLM SSL. Wrote the paper: CO RM AHM CJLM SSL.