About the Authors

Haftom Temesgen Abebe

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

haftoma@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia, Laboratory Interdisciplinary Statistical Data Analysis, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Afework Mulugeta

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Yibrah Berhe

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Kiros Berhane

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Amir Siraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States of America

Dawd Siraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Maru Aregawi

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Malaria Program, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Berhane Fseha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia

Mohamedawel Mohamedniguss Ebrahim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Laboratory Interdisciplinary Statistical Data Analysis, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Solomon Hintsa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia

Hagazi Gebre

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Abrahim Hassen Mohammed

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tigray Health Bureau, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Hagos Godefay

Contributed equally to this work with: Afework Mulugeta, Yibrah Berhe, Kiros Berhane, Amir Siraj, Dawd Siraj, Maru Aregawi, Abrahim Hassen Mohammed, Hagos Godefay

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tigray Health Bureau, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.