About the Authors

Mahfuzar Rahman

mahfuzar.rahman@brac.net

Affiliation Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fakir Md. Yunus

Affiliation Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rasheduzzaman Shah

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Save the Children USA, Washington, DC, United States of America

Fatema Tuz Jhohura

Affiliation Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sabuj Kanti Mistry

Affiliation Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tasmeen Quayyum

Affiliation Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bachera Aktar

Affiliation Health, Nutrition, and Population Programme, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kaosar Afsana

Affiliations Health, Nutrition, and Population Programme, BRAC, BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 68 Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MR KA. Data curation: FTJ FMY. Formal analysis: MR FTJ. Funding acquisition: KA. Investigation: MR KA BA. Methodology: FTJ SKM MR. Project administration: MR KA. Resources: MR KA. Software: FTJ SKM RZS. Supervision: MR. Validation: FTJ BA TQ. Visualization: FMY SKM FTJ MR. Writing – original draft: MR TQ. Writing – review & editing: RZS BA KA FMY.