About the Authors

Sk Masum Billah

Contributed equally to this work with: Sk Masum Billah, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan

billah@icddrb.org

Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kuntal Kumar Saha

Affiliation Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sk Masum Billah, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan

Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ashfaqul Haq Chowdhury

Affiliation Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Sarah P. Garnett

Affiliation The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Shams El Arifeen

Affiliation Maternal and child health division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Purnima Menon

Affiliation International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

Kuntal Kumar Saha is a member of the World Health Organization. The author alone is responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the World Health Organization. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All the other authors have declared that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SEA PM SMB KKS. Data curation: ANSK AHC. Formal analysis: SMB ANSK AHC. Funding acquisition: SEA PM SMB. Investigation: SMB ANSK AHC. Methodology: PM SMB SEA KKS ANSK. Project administration: SMB ANSK AHC. Resources: SMB KKS ANSK SEA PM. Software: ANSK AHC. Supervision: SMB SSK SEA PM. Validation: SMB SSK SEA PM. Visualization: SMB ANSK. Writing – original draft: SMB ANSK SPG. Writing – review & editing: SMB ANSK SPG.