About the Authors

Samuel G. Smith

Samuel.smith@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Laura M. Curtis

Affiliation Health Literacy and Learning Program, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jane Wardle

Affiliation Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Christian von Wagner

Affiliation Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael S. Wolf

Affiliations Health Literacy and Learning Program, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS JW CvW MW. Analyzed the data: SS CvW LC MW. Wrote the paper: SS LC JW CvW MW. Data acquisition: LC MW. Data interpretation: SS LC JW CvW MW.