About the Authors

Harikeerthan Raghuram

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

harikeerthan.raghuram@sangath.in

Affiliations Initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), Bhopal, India, Sangath, Bhopal, India

Sana Parakh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), Bhopal, India, Sangath, Bhopal, India

Deepak Tugnawat

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

Affiliations Initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), Bhopal, India, Sangath, Bhopal, India

Satendra Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), Bhopal, India, Department of Physiology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India

Aqsa Shaikh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), Bhopal, India, Department of Community Medicine, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi, India

Anant Bhan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), Bhopal, India, Sangath, Bhopal, India

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Aqsa Shaikh and Anant Bhan are currently serving as Section Editors on PLOS Global Public Health. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.