About the Authors

Ramnath Subbaraman

ramnath.sub@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research (PUKAR), Mumbai, India

Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases & Immunity, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Srinath Satyanarayana

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and McGill International TB Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Center for Operations Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

Madhukar Pai

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and McGill International TB Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Beena E. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Research, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Vineet K. Chadha

Affiliation Epidemiology and Research Division, National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore, India

Kiran Rade

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office for India (RNTCP-TSN), New Delhi, India

Soumya Swaminathan

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

Kenneth H. Mayer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Fenway Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: MP is a consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RS SSa RRN KHM MP SSw VKC KR BET. Formal analysis: RS RRN SSa. Methodology: RS RRN SSa MP KHM. Resources: MP KHM RS. Supervision: KHM MP SSw VKC KR. Validation: RS RRN SSa MP KHM. Visualization: RS. Writing – original draft: RS. Writing – review & editing: RRN SSa KHM MP VKC SSw KR BET.