About the Authors

Joanne Khabsa

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

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Saurabh Jain

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

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Amena El-Harakeh

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

Affiliation Clinical Research Institute, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Cynthia Rizkallah

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hariri School of Nursing, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Dhruv K. Pandey

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kala-azar Elimination Programme, World Health Organization Country Office, New Delhi, India

Nigus Manaye

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Country Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hariri School of Nursing, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Christine Halleux

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Argaw Dagne

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Elie A. Akl

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ea32@aub.edu.lb

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.