About the Authors

Ben A Lopman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: b.lopman@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ruanne V Barnabas

Affiliation Somerville College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

J. Ties Boerma

Affiliation Measurement and Health Information Systems, Evidence and Information for Policy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Godwin Chawira

Affiliation Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe

Kezia Gaitskell

Affiliation Somerville College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tara Harrop

Affiliation Somerville College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Peter Mason

Affiliation Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe

Christl A Donnelly

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Geoff P Garnett

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Constance Nyamukapa

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom , Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe

Simon Gregson

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom , Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

BAL, PM, CAD, GPG, and CN designed the study. BAL, KG, and TH analyzed the data. GC and SG enrolled patients. BAL, RVB, JTB, PM, CAD, GPG, and SG contributed to writing the paper. RVB contributed to assessing the cause of death from the verbal autopsy data. JTB contributed to the design of the study. GC performed verbal autopsy interviews, and checked and cleaned data for inconsistencies. KG and TH contributed to the evaluation and analysis of the verbal autopsy data.