About the Authors

Emily R. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

emily_r_smith@baylor.edu

‡ These authors are shared first-authors on this work.

Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Robbins College of Health and Human Services, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States of America

Tessa L. Concepcion

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are shared first-authors on this work.

Affiliation Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Mubarak Mohamed

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland

Shugri Dahir

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland

Edna Adan Ismail

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland

Henry E. Rice

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

Anirudh Krishna

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

on behalf of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery

Complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.