About the Authors

John Kinsman

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

john.kinsman@umu.se

Affiliation Epidemiology and Global Health Unit, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Kars de Bruijne

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health and Research Training, Sierra Leone (CHaRT-SL), Freetown, Sierra Leone, School of Global Studies, Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Alpha M. Jalloh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Centre (MRC), 5 Frazier Davis Drive, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Muriel Harris

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health and Research Training, Sierra Leone (CHaRT-SL), Freetown, Sierra Leone, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States America

Hussainatu Abdullah

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health and Research Training, Sierra Leone (CHaRT-SL), Freetown, Sierra Leone, Independent social development consultant, Dakar, Senegal

Titus Boye-Thompson

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health and Research Training, Sierra Leone (CHaRT-SL), Freetown, Sierra Leone, Biltfaden UK Ltd, Communications Consultancy, Bradford, United Kingdom

Osman Sankoh

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Health and Research Training, Sierra Leone (CHaRT-SL), Freetown, Sierra Leone, INDEPTH Network, East Legon, Accra, Ghana, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone

Abdul K. Jalloh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Centre (MRC), 5 Frazier Davis Drive, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Heidi Jalloh-Vos

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

Affiliation Medical Research Centre (MRC), 5 Frazier Davis Drive, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Competing Interests

Titus Boye-Thompson is affiliated with his own private consultancy firm, but no private funds were used for the study and he has declared that he has had no competing interest associated with his firm. The authors have also declared that no competing interests exist.