About the Authors

Jennifer Carns

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

Affiliations Rice360 Institute for Global Health, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America

Sara Liaghati-Mobarhan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rice360 Institute for Global Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Aba Asibon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rice360 Institute for Global Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Samuel Ngwala

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rice360 Institute for Global Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

Elizabeth Molyneux

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

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

Maria Oden

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Rice360 Institute for Global Health, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rkortum@rice.edu

Affiliations Rice360 Institute for Global Health, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America

Kondwani Kawaza

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

Alfred Chalira

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Services, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Norman Lufesi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Services, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors MO, RRK, and EM are inventors on a patent for CPAP that has been licensed to 3SD at zero percent royalty in GAVI eligible countries; all royalties have been donated to Rice University to support global health research and education.