About the Authors

Brahmaiah Upputuri

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

Affiliation Clinical Division, LEPRA Society-Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre (BPHRC), Hyderabad, India

Michael Sukumar Pallapati

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

Affiliation Clinical Division, LEPRA Society-Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre (BPHRC), Hyderabad, India

Patrick Tarwater

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America

Aparna Srikantam

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

aparna@leprahealthinaction.in

Affiliation Clinical and Laboratory Research Division, LEPRA Society-Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre (BPHRC), Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.