About the Authors

Rolina Dhital

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolina Dhital, Ram Chandra Silwal, Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen, Masamine Jimba

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ram Chandra Silwal

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolina Dhital, Ram Chandra Silwal, Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen, Masamine Jimba

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Green Tara Nepal, GPO, CPC, Kathmandu, Nepal

Padam Simkhada

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolina Dhital, Ram Chandra Silwal, Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen, Masamine Jimba

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Education, Health and Community, Public Health Institute, Mount Pleasant, United Kingdom

Edwin van Teijlingen

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolina Dhital, Ram Chandra Silwal, Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen, Masamine Jimba

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

Affiliation Bournemouth University, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Masamine Jimba

Contributed equally to this work with: Rolina Dhital, Ram Chandra Silwal, Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen, Masamine Jimba

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

mjimba@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.