Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Newark (Drs Tomesko, Brody, Sackey, and Touger-Decker and Ms Sullivan); Division of Nutrition, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, Newark, New Jersey (Dr Touger-Decker); and International Medical University of Malaysia, School of Health Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Drs Chen and Swee).

Correspondence: Jennifer Tomesko, DCN, RD, CNSC, Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 65 Bergen St, Ste 156 Newark, NJ 07107 ([email protected]).

The author contributions are as follows: The primary investigator of the interdisciplinary working group grant was Dr Jennifer Tomesko. The faculty members who travelled to Malaysia to conduct the training were Drs Tomesko, Brody, and Touger-Decker, who worked in collaboration with Drs Chen and Chee. The article was written by Drs Tomesko, Brody, Sackey, and Touger-Decker. Dr Sackey completed the statistical analysis. Ms Jessie Sullivan constructed the tables and completed editing. Drs Chen and Chee edited the entire article, provided references, and added additional feedback, which was written in the article.

All authors are in agreement with the article and declare that the content has not been published elsewhere.

This study received expedited approval by the Health Sciences IRB Newark at Rutgers University (protocol #2018000733), IMU Joint Committee on Research and Ethics (IMU R 209/2018), and Malaysian Ministry of Health National Medical Research Registry (NMRR-18-2857-44374 (IIR)). A grant from Rutgers Global funded the study as well as university funding from IMU.

Dr Jennifer Tomesko received an interdisciplinary working group grant (#205819) from Rutgers Global. Dr Seong Ting Chen received an International Medical University IMU R 209/2018 travel grant. For the remaining authors, none were declared.