About the Authors
- Asha George
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* E-mail: ageorge@unicef.org
Affiliation Health Section, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America
- Mark Young
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Affiliation Health Section, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America
- Abhay Bang
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Affiliation Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health, Gadchiroli, India
- Kit Yee Chan
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Affiliation Nossal Institute of Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Igor Rudan
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Affiliations Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Split, Croatia, Centre of Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Cesar G. Victora
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Affiliation University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
- Mickey Chopra
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Affiliation Health Section, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America
- Craig Rubens
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Affiliation Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- and the GAPPS expert group on community based strategies and constraints
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¶Membership of the GAPPS expert group on community based strategies and constraints is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
While this paper was being developed IR was a consultant for the Child Health and Nutrition Initiative (CHNRI) of the Global Forum for Health Research. Because the authors all work in this research area, it is conceivable that they could benefit from any increased attention and financing regarding implementation research in preventing prematurity and stillbirth.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: AG MY AB KYC IR CGV MC CR. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: AG MY AB KYC IR CGV MC CR. Designed the experiments/the study: AG MY IR CGV MC. Analyzed the data: AG MY KYC IR MC. Collected data/did experiments for the study: AG CGV. Enrolled patients: AG. Wrote the first draft of the paper: AG MY. Contributed to the writing of the paper: AG MY KYC IR CGV MC CR. Participated in designing the study and contributed to writing the manuscript by way of comments: AB. Led the development of the CHNRI methodology with assistance of the large multidisciplinary team of experts: IR. Suggested the original idea: CGV. Reviewed the data analysis: CR.