About the Authors

Kavumpurathu R. Thankappan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavumpurathu R. Thankappan, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Thirunavukkarasu Sathish

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavumpurathu R. Thankappan, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

speaktosat@gmail.com

Affiliations Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Population Health Sciences, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Robyn J. Tapp

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

Affiliations Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Population Health Research Institute, St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan E. Shaw

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

Affiliation Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mojtaba Lotfaliany

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

Affiliation Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rory Wolfe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pilvikki Absetz

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

Affiliations Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Collaborative Care Systems Finland, Helsinki, Finland

Elezebeth Mathews

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala, India

Zahra Aziz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, WHO Collaborating Centre on Implementation Research for Prevention & Control of NCDs, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Emily D. Williams

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

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Edwin B. Fisher

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

Affiliation Peers for Progress and Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, United States of America

Paul Z. Zimmet

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

Affiliations Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Diabetes, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ajay Mahal

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

Affiliation Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sajitha Balachandran

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Fabrizio D'Esposito

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Priyanka Sajeev

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, Kerala Social Security Mission, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Emma Thomas

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brian Oldenburg

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

Affiliations Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, WHO Collaborating Centre on Implementation Research for Prevention & Control of NCDs, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.