About the Authors

Malabika Sarker

malabika@bracu.ac.bd

Affiliation James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, icddr,b Building, Level 6, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

Mrittika Barua

Affiliation James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, icddr,b Building, Level 6, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

Fiona Guerra

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, 480 University Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, ON M5G 1V2, Canada

Avijit Saha

Affiliation James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, icddr,b Building, Level 6, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

Afzal Aftab

Affiliation James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 68, Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, icddr,b Building, Level 6, Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

A. H. M. Mahbub Latif

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Research and Training (ISRT), University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

Shayla Islam

Affiliation BRAC, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

Akramul Islam

Affiliation BRAC, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, 1212, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MS AI. Data curation: AS FG MB. Formal analysis: MB AHMML FG MS. Funding acquisition: AI SI. Investigation: MS AI. Methodology: MS MB AA. Project administration: AA SI MB AS. Resources: AI SI MS. Software: FG AS. Supervision: MS AI. Validation: MS SI. Visualization: MB AHMML. Writing – original draft: MS MB. Writing – review & editing: MS MB FG AHMML.