1. Samuel L. Dickman ( ) was a student at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the time this work was carried out. He is currently a medical intern at the University of California, San Francisco.
2. Steffie Woolhandler is a professor of health policy at Hunter College, City University of New York, in New York City, and a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
3. Jacob Bor is an assistant professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health, in Massachusetts.
4. Danny McCormick is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Social and Community Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
5. David H. Bor is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Department of Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance.
6. David U. Himmelstein is a professor of health policy at Hunter College, City University of New York, and a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School.