Editors
Editor-in-Chief:
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Deputy Editor:
Wai Hong (Kevin) Lo, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
Associate Editors:
Chiledom A. Ahaghotu, M.D., Ph.D, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA
Joan Reede, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., M.B.A., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Augustus White, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Statistical Reviewer:
Chia-Ling Kuo, Ph.D.; UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
Editorial Board:
Shervin Assari, M.D., M.P.H., Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Linda Barry, M. D. University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA; Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Cedric Bright, M.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Carolyn Britton, M.D., M.S., Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Michael W. Byrd, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Donna Christensen, M.D., U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.,USA; Linda Clayton, M.D., M.P.H, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Julian D. Ford, Ph.D., University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA; James Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; Lynnezy Gibson, M.D., Newport Beach, CA, USA; George Hill, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA; Rodney Hood, M.D., Cobb-NMA Institute, Silver Spring, MD, USA; Marja M. Hurley, M.D.,University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; Sonja Hutchins, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; Edith Irby-Jones, M.D., University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, AR, USA; Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; Lovell Jones, Ph.D, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Thomas LaVeist, Ph.D., John Hopkins University of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Michael Lenoir, M.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; Robert Like, M.D., M.S., Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Edith Mitchell, M.D., Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Randall Morgan, M.D., M.B.A., Sarasota Orthopedic Associates, Sarasota FL, USA; Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Vivian Pinn, M.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Griffin Rodgers, M.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA; John Ruffin, M.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; Brian Smedley, Ph.D., Health Policy Institute, Washington, DC, USA; Anne E. Sumner, M.D., Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, Bethesda, MD, USA; Richard Allen Williams, M.D., UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Young Researcher Editorial Board:
Noé Rubén Chávez, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Sirry Alang, M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA; Mary-Katherine Smith, DrPH, M.P.H., MCHES, A.T. Still University, Kirksville, MO, USA