About the Authors

Sanam Roder-DeWan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

roderdewan@mail.harvard.edu

Affiliations Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, UNICEF, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Anna D. Gage

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Lisa R. Hirschhorn

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nana A. Y. Twum-Danso

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MAZA, Accra, Ghana, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jerker Liljestrand

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Retired, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kwanele Asante-Shongwe

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer, Cape Town, South Africa

Viviana Rodríguez

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Efectividad Clínica Sanitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Talhiya Yahya

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Quality Management Unit, Health Quality Assurance Department, Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Margaret E. Kruk

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

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

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MEK is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.