About the Authors

Igor Rudan

igor.rudan@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Global Health Academy and Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Croatian Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Soltanska, Split, Croatia

Lydia Kapiriri

Affiliation Department of Health, Aging and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mark Tomlinson

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Manuela Balliet

Affiliation Global Health Academy and Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Barney Cohen

Affiliation Committee on Population, United States National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Mickey Chopra

Affiliation UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

IR, LK, MT, and MC have all been involved in the development and implementation of the CHNRI methodology. IR and MC have been consultants of Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative of the Global Forum of Health Research while developing the CHNRI methodology. The other coauthors have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: IR LK MT MB BC MC. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: IR LK MT MB BC MC. Designed the experiments/the study: MT. Wrote the first draft of the paper: IR LK. Contributed to the writing of the paper: IR LK MT MB BC MC.