About the Authors

Augustus Osborne

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

Affiliation Institute for Development, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Umaru Sesay

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

sesayumaru4@gmail.com

Affiliations Sierra Leone Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone, African Field Epidemiology Network, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Gebrekrstos Negash Gebru

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Sierra Leone Field Epidemiology Training Program, National Public Health Agency, Freetown, Sierra Leone, African Field Epidemiology Network, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Peter Bai James

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Health, National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.