About the Authors

Meghan A. Bohren

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

meghan.bohren@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Gender and Women’s Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Alya Hazfiarini

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gender and Women’s Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Martha Vazquez Corona

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gender and Women’s Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Mercedes Colomar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Latin American Center for Perinatology/Women´s and Reproductive Health Unit, Pan American Health Organization, Montevideo, Uruguay

Bremen De Mucio

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Latin American Center for Perinatology/Women´s and Reproductive Health Unit, Pan American Health Organization, Montevideo, Uruguay

Özge Tunçalp

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Anayda Portela

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

MAB, BDM, öT, and AP have participated in the development of guidelines, research, and materials related to companion of choice at birth. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.