About the Authors

Ashley M. Aimone

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Diego G. Bassani

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

Affiliations Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Huma Qamar

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

Affiliation Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alison Dasiewicz

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nandita Perumal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sorrel M. L. Namaste

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The DHS Program, ICF, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Devanshi Shah

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Daniel E. Roth

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

daniel.roth@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and one of the manuscript coauthors has the following competing interests: SN is employed by ICF with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through The DHS Program (#720-OAA-18C-00083) which serves as one of the primary sources of anthropometric data in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). ICF, https://www.icf.com/. USAID, https://www.usaid.gov/. Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, https://www.gatesfoundation.org/. DHS Program, https://dhsprogram.com/. The following coauthors have declared that no competing interests exist: AA, DB, HQ, AD, NP, DS, and DR. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.