Early initiation of breastfeeding and severe illness in the early newborn period: An observational study in rural Bangladesh

• Shahreen Raihana ,

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

  * E-mail: shahreen.raihana@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliations The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, New South Wales, Australia, Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1285-8867

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• Michael J. Dibley,

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

  Affiliation The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, New South Wales, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-5180

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• Mohammad Masudur Rahman,

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

  Affiliations Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Health Promotion, Education, & Behavior, Norman J Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8995-748X

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• Tazeen Tahsina,

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

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5899-8422

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• Md. Abu Bakkar Siddique,

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

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1484-0823

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• Qazi Sadequr Rahman,

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

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Sajia Islam,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Ashraful Alam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, New South Wales, Australia

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• Patrick J. Kelly,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, New South Wales, Australia

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• Shams El Arifeen,

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

  Affiliation Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-5932

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• Tanvir M Huda

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney School of Public Health, New South Wales, Australia, Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8996-4361

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