About the Authors

Robin L. Erickson

Contributed equally to this work with: Robin L. Erickson, Nivedita Kamath

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

RobinE@adhb.govt.nz

Affiliation Paediatric Kidney Service, Starship Children’s Hospital, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Nivedita Kamath

Contributed equally to this work with: Robin L. Erickson, Nivedita Kamath

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Nephrology, St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India

Arpana Iyengar

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Nephrology, St.John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India

Adebowale Ademola

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan / University College Hospital Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Christopher Esezobor

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Rowena Lalji

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Kidney Disease Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Nephrology, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Metro South and Integrated Nephrology and Transplant Services (MINTS), Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Erin Hedin

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Silvia Arruebo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium

Fergus J. Caskey

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Sandrine Damster

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

Affiliation The International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium

Jo-Ann Donner

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

Affiliation The International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium

Vivekanand Jha

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW), New Delhi, India, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Adeera Levin

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

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Masaomi Nangaku

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Endocrinology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Syed Saad

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

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Marcello Tonelli

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Canada and Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre in Prevention and Control of Chronic Kidney Disease, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Feng Ye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ikechi G. Okpechi

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

Affiliations Division of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Kidney and Hypertension Research Unit, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Aminu K. Bello

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ AKB and DWJ are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David W. Johnson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ AKB and DWJ are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Centre for Kidney Disease Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Department of Kidney and Transplant Services, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Australasian Kidney Trials Network at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. SA, SD, and JD report personal fees (salaries) from The International Society of Nephrology, as employees. VJ reports personal fees from GSK, Astra Zeneca, Baxter Healthcare, Visterra, Biocryst, Chinook, Vera, and Bayer, paid to his institution, outside the submitted work. MN reports grants and personal fees from KyowaKirin, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chugai, Daiichi Sankyo, Torii, JT, Mitsubishi Tanabe, grants from Takeda and Bayer, and personal fees from Astellas, Akebia, AstraZeneca, and GSK, outside the submitted work. AKB reports other (consultancy and honoraria) from AMGEN Incorporated and Otsuka, other (consultancy) from Bayer and GSK, and grants from Canadian Institute of Health Research and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, outside the submitted work; He is also Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease and Co-chair of the ISN-Global Kidney Health Atlas. DWJ reports consultancy fees, research grants, speaker’s honoraria and travel sponsorships from Baxter Healthcare and Fresenius Medical Care, consultancy fees from Astra Zeneca, Bayer, and AWAK, speaker’s honoraria from ONO and Boehringer Ingelheim & Lilly, and travel sponsorships from Ono and Amgen, outside the submitted work. He is also a current recipient of an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Investigator Grant, outside the submitted work. All other authors have nothing to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.