About the Authors

Akriti Singh

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

‡ AS and KAT are joint first authors to this work

Affiliation USAID Advancing Nutrition, Helen Keller International, New York, New York, United States of America

Kelsey A. Torres

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

kelsey_torres@jsi.com

‡ AS and KAT are joint first authors to this work

Affiliation USAID Advancing Nutrition, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Nashna Maharjan

Contributed equally to this work with: Nashna Maharjan, Jyoti Shrestha, Faith Agbozo, Abdulai Abubakari, Lutuf Abdul-Rahman, Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mother and Infant Research Activities, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal

Jyoti Shrestha

Contributed equally to this work with: Nashna Maharjan, Jyoti Shrestha, Faith Agbozo, Abdulai Abubakari, Lutuf Abdul-Rahman, Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mother and Infant Research Activities, Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal

Faith Agbozo

Contributed equally to this work with: Nashna Maharjan, Jyoti Shrestha, Faith Agbozo, Abdulai Abubakari, Lutuf Abdul-Rahman, Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family and Community Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana

Abdulai Abubakari

Contributed equally to this work with: Nashna Maharjan, Jyoti Shrestha, Faith Agbozo, Abdulai Abubakari, Lutuf Abdul-Rahman, Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global and International Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana

Lutuf Abdul-Rahman

Contributed equally to this work with: Nashna Maharjan, Jyoti Shrestha, Faith Agbozo, Abdulai Abubakari, Lutuf Abdul-Rahman, Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Contributed equally to this work with: Nashna Maharjan, Jyoti Shrestha, Faith Agbozo, Abdulai Abubakari, Lutuf Abdul-Rahman, Altrena Mukuria-Ashe

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Advancing Nutrition, Save the Children, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.