About the Authors

Hemant Deepak Shewade

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hemantjipmer@gmail.com, hemant@nie.gov.in

‡ HDS and PR contributed equally as primary authors. KR, RR and MVM contributed equally as senior authors.

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

Prabhadevi Ravichandran

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

‡ HDS and PR contributed equally as primary authors. KR, RR and MVM contributed equally as senior authors.

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

S. Kiran Pradeep

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

G. Kiruthika

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

Devika Shanmugasundaram

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

Joshua Chadwick

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

Swati Iyer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Aniket Chowdhury

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Dheeraj Tumu

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Amar N. Shah

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID India, New Delhi, India

Bhavin Vadera

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID India, New Delhi, India

Venkatesh Roddawar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation John Snow India Private Ltd., New Delhi, India

Sanjay K. Mattoo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Kiran Rade

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ HDS and PR contributed equally as primary authors. KR, RR and MVM contributed equally as senior authors.

Affiliation Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to India, WHO Country Office, New Delhi, India

Raghuram Rao

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ HDS and PR contributed equally as primary authors. KR, RR and MVM contributed equally as senior authors.

Affiliation Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India

Manoj V. Murhekar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ HDS and PR contributed equally as primary authors. KR, RR and MVM contributed equally as senior authors.

Affiliation ICMR – National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE), Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.