About the Authors

Victoria L. Oliver

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

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

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

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Stanley Luchters

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

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ranjana Yadav

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Vishwajeet Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Empowerment Lab, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Alula M. Teklu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MERQ Consultancy PLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Moti Tolera

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia

Abebaw Minaye

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Michelle P. McIntosh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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."