About the Authors

Danielle Schoenaker

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

D.Schoenaker@soton.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Jennifer Hall

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Ghadir Fakhri Al-Jayyousi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

Ana Luiza Vilela Borges

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Palwende R. Boua

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Nanoro, Burkina Faso, MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia, Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Biosciences (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jerry Kok Yen Chan

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Reproductive Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Tamar Chitashvili

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation John Snow International (JSI), Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Ilse Delbaere

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Healthcare, VIVES University of Applied Sciences, Kortrijk, Belgium

Anastasia Demidova

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Care in Long Term Conditions, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Kassahun Fikadu

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Science, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Sarah Fisher

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public contributor, United Kingdom

Avishek Hazra

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Council Consulting, New Delhi, India

Sharon James

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SPHERE Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care, Department of General Practice, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Chee Wai Ku

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Reproductive Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Eri Maeda

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Zahid Memon

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Daniel Munblit

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Care in Long Term Conditions, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Annemarie Mulders

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Zivai Murira

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), Kathmandu, Nepal

Wendy V. Norman

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Amy Ogle

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preconception Education Partnership, United States of America

Vani Sethi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), Kathmandu, Nepal

Hessa Ibrahim Shahbic

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), Doha, Qatar

Nadira Sultana Kakoly

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Health and Life Sciences, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sarah Verbiest

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Schools of Social Work and Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Judith Stephenson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation EGA Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

for the International Core Indicators for Preconception Health and Equity (iCIPHE) Alliance

Members of the iCIPHE Alliance who contributed to this study protocol include: Hanan F. Abdul Rahim, Zeleke Abebo, Nisreen A. Alwan, Annick Bogaerts, Emma Hope Cassinelli, Andrea R. Deussen, Jodie M. Dodd, Keith M. Godfrey, Briony Hill, Patricia A. Janssen, Zohra S. Lassi, Coral Maloney, Salima Meherali, Megan Mitchell, Monica Shrivastav, Melese Siyoum, Helen Skouteris, Catherine Stewart, Francesca Storey, Janine Winterbottom, Andrea M.F. Woolner.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.