About the Authors

Aleksandra Jakubowski

aejaku@unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Sally C. Stearns

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Margaret E. Kruk

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

Gustavo Angeles

Affiliations Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Harsha Thirumurthy

Affiliations Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: GA was Deputy Director of the MEASURE Evaluation project during 2000–2009, when the project received partial funding from PMI. GA did not manage or participate in any PMI-funded activity. GA is currently Senior Evaluation Advisor for MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV, which receives partial funding from PMI. GA has not participated in any PMI-funded activity within this project and does not have research grants funded by PMI. MEK is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AJ HT. Data curation: AJ. Formal analysis: AJ. Methodology: AJ SCS MEK GA HT. Project administration: AJ. Supervision: HT. Validation: AJ. Visualization: AJ. Writing – original draft: AJ HT. Writing – review & editing: AJ SCS MEK GA HT.