About the Authors

Kimiyo Kikuchi

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan

Evelyn Korkor Ansah

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Sumiyo Okawa

Affiliation Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Sumiyo Okawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Sumiyo Okawa

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan

Yeetey Enuameh

Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Brong-Ahafo, Ghana

Junko Yasuoka

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan

Keiko Nanishi

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan

Akira Shibanuma

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan

Margaret Gyapong

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Dodowa Health Research Centre, Dodowa, Greater Accra, Ghana

Seth Owusu-Agyei

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Brong-Ahafo, Ghana

Abraham Rexford Oduro

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Upper-East, Ghana

Gloria Quansah Asare

Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Ministries, Accra, Ghana

Abraham Hodgson

Affiliation Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Masamine Jimba

mjimba@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan

Ghana EMBRACE Implementation Research Project Team

Membership of the Ghana EMBRACE Implementation Research Project is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK JY KN. Performed the experiments: KK. Analyzed the data: KK SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK. Wrote the paper: EA SO YE JY KN MJ. Contributed to the provision of critical comments on the final manuscript: AS MG SOA ARO GQA AH.