About the Authors

Nadine Seward

nadineseward@yahoo.com

Affiliation UCL Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom

Audrey Prost

Affiliation UCL Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom

Andrew Copas

Affiliation Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, London, United Kingdom

Marine Corbin

Affiliations Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Medical Sciences, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, CeRMS and CPO-Piemonte, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Leah Li

Affiliation Population, Policy and Practice Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Tim Colbourn

Affiliation UCL Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom

David Osrin

Affiliation UCL Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom

Melissa Neuman

Affiliation UCL Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom

Kishwar Azad

Affiliation Perinatal Care Project (PCP), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abdul Kuddus

Affiliation Perinatal Care Project (PCP), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nirmala Nair

Affiliation Ekjut, Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India

Prasanta Tripathy

Affiliation Ekjut, Chakradharpur, Jharkhand, India

Dharma Manandhar

Affiliation Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Kathmandu, Nepal

Anthony Costello

Affiliation UCL Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom

Mario Cortina-Borja

Affiliation Population, Policy and Practice Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS AP A. Costello. Analyzed the data: NS MC-B MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS MC-B MC. Wrote the paper: NS AP MC-B MC A. Copas TC LL MN NN PT KA AK DM A. Costello.