About the Authors

Pascal Geldsetzer

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

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer Manne-Goehler

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michaela Theilmann

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

Justine I. Davies

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Global Health, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Ashish Awasthi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi, National Capital Region, India

Goodarz Danaei

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas A. Gaziano

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sebastian Vollmer

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

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Economics, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany

Lindsay M. Jaacks

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi, National Capital Region, India

Till Bärnighausen

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

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, South Africa

Rifat Atun

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

ratun@hsph.harvard.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.