About the Authors

Lars Åke Persson

lars.persson@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kathleen M. Rasmussen

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Huixia Yang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: LAP receives a stipend as a Specialty Consulting Editor for PLOS Medicine and serves on the journal's Editorial Board. LAP, KMR, and HY served as Guest Editors on PLOS Medicine’s Special Issue on Maternal and Child Health & Nutrition.