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Lili Mei Granda Argianas, Washington University in St. Louis

Matthew N. Hannah, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yjan Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Lindsey Murtagh, Brown University

Thomas J Bassett, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Brooke N. Newman, Virginia Commonwealth University

Liv Coleman, University of Tampa

Ronald Wright, Wake Forest University

Barbara A. Trish, Grinnell College

Emma Schroeder, Texas Christian University; Fiona Rodger, University of Notre Dame, and Samantha Chapa, University of Texas at Arlington

Kayla Morton, University of Delaware

Liz Rosenberg, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Emily Smith-Greenaway, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Ashton Verdery, Penn State

Wesleigh Gates, University of California, Los Angeles

Ruiqian Li, American University

Neha Gour, George Mason University; John Kotcher, George Mason University, and Teresa Myers, George Mason University

Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota

Fengxiu Zhang, George Mason University and Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University

Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro

Ann Muthoni Njogu, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp; Carlo Federici, Bocconi University, and Peter M Macharia, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Garrett M. Broad, Rowan University

Ari Lightman, Carnegie Mellon University

Charles Shey Wiysonge, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council and Chinwe Juliana Iwu-Jaja, Stellenbosch University

Daniel H. Robinson, University of Texas at Arlington

Wesleigh Gates, University of California, Los Angeles

Anat Lior, Drexel University

Margaret Landis, Arizona State University

Benjamin Chrisinger, Tufts University and Justin White, Boston University

Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University; Natalie Pennington, Colorado State University, and Nick Marx, Colorado State University

Shannon Oltmann, Wayne State University and Kafi Kumasi

Sujeong Park, Penn State