About the Authors

Ajay Mahal

Affiliation School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Anup Karan

anup.karan@dph.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, and University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Victoria Y. Fan

Affiliation Center for Global Development, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Michael Engelgau

Affiliation South Asia Human Development Unit, The World Bank, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM AK ME VF. Performed the experiments: AM AK VF. Analyzed the data: AM AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM AK ME VF. Wrote the paper: AM AK ME VF.