Lee, Joy
Huvanandana, Jacqueline
Foster, Juliet M.
Reddel, Helen K.
Abramson, Michael J.
Thamrin, Cindy
Hew, Mark
Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian Government Research Training Program
National Health and Medical Research Council
Article History
Received: 18 September 2020
Accepted: 30 June 2021
First Online: 19 July 2021
Competing interests
: MJA holds investigator-initiated grants for unrelated research from Pfizer and Boehringer-Ingelheim. He has undertaken an unrelated consultancy for and received assistance with conference attendance from Sanofi. He has also received a speaker’s fee from GSK. HKR or her institute has received fees for providing independent medical advice on advisory boards for AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Sanofi/Genzyme, for providing independent medical education at symposia funded by AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Mundipharma, Novartis and Teva, and research grants from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, all unrelated to this research. MH has received grants-in-aid, speaker fees, and fees for serving on the advisory boards of GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Teva, Sanofi, and Seqirus, all unrelated to the current manuscript, all paid to his institutional employer Alfred Health. JL has received fees for providing unrelated independent medical advice for GlaxoSmithKline and has provided speaker fees for medical education purposes from Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca. HR reports grants and personal fees from AstraZeneca, grants and personal fees from GlaxoSmithKline, personal fees from Merck, grants and personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Teva, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Sanofi Genzyme, outside the submitted work. CT is a NHMRC Career Development Fellow (Level 1). JL received support through an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. Both funding sources had no role in study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the report of decision to submit this manuscript for publication. JH and JF have no competing interests to disclose.