About the Authors

Daniel Bekele Ketema

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

DKetema@georgeinstitute.org.au

Affiliations . The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health science, Debre Markos University, Ethiopia

Min Jun

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

Affiliations . The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sradha Kotwal

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

Affiliations . The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Prince of Wales Hospital, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Workagegnehu Hailu

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia

Martin Gallagher

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

Affiliations . The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Liverpool Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Rohina Joshi

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

Affiliations School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa

Competing Interests

Competing interests DBK, RJ, WH, and MG declare no relevant conflicts of interest. MJ is responsible for research projects related to CKD that have received research funding from Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly Alliance. SK has received consultancy fees and speaking fees from Chinook/Novartis, Amgen, Dimerix, Novo Nordisk. Bayer Pharmaceuticals provides the study medication for SK’s trial.