About the Authors

Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

ekdarkwa002@st.ug.edu.gh

Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana, Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra

Sabina Asiamah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana, Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra

Elizabeth Awini

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Cynthia Sottie

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Anthony Godi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra

John E. Williams

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Albert Akpalu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana

J. Helen Cross

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street NIHR BRC Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Josemir W. Sander

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London WC1N 3BG & Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Chalfont St Peter, United Kingdom, Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, The Netherlands, Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Arjune Sen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Charles R. Newton

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anthony Danso-Appiah

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Centre for Evidence Synthesis and Policy, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra

Patrick Adjei

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interest [The authors have declared that no competing interest exist ]