About the Authors
- Victoria L. Oliver
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Peter A. Lambert
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Kyu Kyu Than
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Yasmin Mohamed
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Stanley Luchters
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Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Snigdha Verma
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Ranjana Yadav
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Vishwajeet Kumar
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Alula M. Teklu
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation MERQ Consultancy PLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Moti Tolera
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Public Health, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
- Abebaw Minaye
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Psychology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Michelle P. McIntosh
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: michelle.mcintosh@monash.edu
Affiliation Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Competing Interests
We have the following interests: VLO, PL and MPM are part of a product development team at Monash University, which is progressing the development of a heat stable oxytocin product for the prevention of PPH in resource-poor settings. Inhaled oxytocin is being developed through a product development collaboration agreement between Monash University and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). GSK had no role in the funding, design or conduct of this study. AT is the founder and CEO of a for-profit research organisation (MERQ consultancy). For the conduct of this study, MT and AM were contracted by MERQ consultancy to provide services as outlined in the ‘author contribution’ section. MPM is the co-inventor of a worldwide patent application ‘Method and Formulation for Inhalation’ (WO 2013/016754) that covers the delivery of biologically active agents (including oxytocin) in the form of dry powders for inhalation. The authors have no commercial interest in the outcomes of this study or the introduction of the inhaled oxytocin product in low and lower-middle income countries. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products relevant to this research study to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials."