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• Correction notice This article has been corrected since it first published. Tsoline Kojaoghlanian is now included in the list of collaborators of the 'Public Health Working Group for Armenia.'

• Collaborators Public Health Working Group for Armenia: The other members are: Tamar Kabakian-Khasholian (Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut), Elena Sagayan (Kaiser Permanente Obstetrics And Gynecology, 3000 Las Positas Rd, Livermore, CA, 94551), Lorky Libaridian (Department of Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, US.), Shant Shekherdimian (Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, US.), Naira Setrakian (Children’s Oncology Group, 800 Royal Oaks Drive, Suite 210 Monrovia, CA 91016), Alicia Demirjian (Evelina London Children's Hospital, London, UK); Talar Habeshian (Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, 100 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, CA), Lara Rostomian (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA), Michael Abassian (School of Public Health, University of California Berkley, 2121 Berkeley Way, Room 5302, Berkeley, CA), Christine Mavilian (Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Graduate Program in Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA), and

  Tsoline Kojaoghlanian (Maimonides Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA).

• Contributors Conceptualisation, ArB and KH.; writing—original draft preparation, ArB and AlB.; writing—review and editing, ArB and AlB, AC, MD, VK, ELS, CM, VH, RJD, PF-M, SD, SS, AD, KH; visualisation, AC; supervision, KH. All the members of Public Health working group for Armenia have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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