About the Authors

Kathy Trieu

Affiliation Food Policy Division, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Bruce Neal

Affiliation Food Policy Division, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Corinna Hawkes

Affiliation Policy and Public Affairs, World Cancer Research Fund, London, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Dunford

Affiliation Food Policy Division, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Norm Campbell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Rodrigo Rodriguez-Fernandez

Affiliation International SOS Freeport Industrial Public Health and Malaria Control, Kuala Kencana, Papua, Indonesia

Branka Legetic

Affiliation Unit of Noncommunicable Diseases and Disability, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization- WHO, Washington DC, United States of America

Lindsay McLaren

Affiliation Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Amanda Barberio

Affiliation Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jacqui Webster

jwebster@georgeinstitute.org.au

Affiliation Food Policy Division, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form and declare: BN reports non-financial support from Nu-Tek Salt Australia, grants from Australian Food and Grocery Council, grants from World Health Organization outside the submitted work; BN is Chair of the Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health. ED reports grants from World Health Organization during the conduct of the study. NC is Co-Chair PAHO/WHO technical Advisory Group on dietary salt reduction Member, World Action on Salt and Health President (and Chair of Dietary salt committee), World Hypertension League, HSF CIHR Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control. BL is Secretariat of the PAHO-WHO led initiative in the Americas "Cardiovascular diseases prevention through population wide salt reduction in the Americas" and coordinates the work of the PAHO Director's Technical Advisory Group on the same initiative. JW reports grants from Vic Health, grants from World Health Organization, grants from Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, during the conduct of the study. JW is Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Population Salt Reduction at the George Institute for Global Health. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW BN CH. Performed the experiments: KT JW LM AB. Analyzed the data: KT JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: KT JW. Contributed to subsquent drafts and agreed on the final manuscript: KT BN CH ED NC RRF BL LM AB JW.