About the Authors

Rakesh Aggarwal

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

Qiushi Chen

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amit Goel

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India

Nicole Seguy

Affiliation World Health Organization India Country Office, New Delhi, India

Razia Pendse

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for the South-East Asia, Communicable Diseases Department, New Delhi, India

Turgay Ayer

Affiliation H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jagpreet Chhatwal

JagChhatwal@mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Chhatwal has received a research grant from Gilead and an advisory fee from Merck and Gilead. Other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RA QC AG NS JC. Data curation: JC QC. Formal analysis: QC. Methodology: RA QC AG NS RP TA JC. Project administration: JC. Software: QC. Supervision: RA QC. Validation: RA QC JC. Visualization: RA QC JC. Writing – original draft: RA JC. Writing – review & editing: RA QC AG NS RP TA JC.