About the Authors

Gulrez Shah Azhar

gsazhar@iiphg.org

Affiliations Indian Institute of Public Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Dileep Mavalankar

Affiliations Indian Institute of Public Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Amruta Nori-Sarma

Affiliations Indian Institute of Public Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Ajit Rajiva

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Priya Dutta

Affiliation Indian Institute of Public Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Anjali Jaiswal

Affiliation Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Perry Sheffield

Affiliation Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Kim Knowlton

Affiliations Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Jeremy J. Hess

Membership of the Ahmedabad Heat and Climate Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GSA DM AS AJ KK JH PS. Performed the experiments: GSA AR AS PD DM. Analyzed the data: GSA AR PD AS DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS AR PD GSA KK JH PS AJ. Wrote the paper: GSA KK JH PS DM AJ AR AS. Obtained the data and permissions to use the data: DM GSA AJ AS.