About the Authors

Joyce Gyamfi

Contributed equally to this work with: Joyce Gyamfi, Emmanuel Peprah

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

gyamfj01@nyu.edu

Affiliation Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Temitope Ojo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Sabrina Epou

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Amy Diawara

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Lotanna Dike

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Deborah Adenikinju

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Scholastica Enechukwu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Dorice Vieira

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New York University Health Sciences Library, New York, New York, United States of America

Obiageli Nnodu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research & Training (CESRTA), University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

Gbenga Ogedegbe

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Health, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Emmanuel Peprah

Contributed equally to this work with: Joyce Gyamfi, Emmanuel Peprah

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Global Health Program, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.