About the Authors

Nicole J. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Hui-Husan Hsu

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ram Krishna Chandyo

Affiliations Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Binob Shrestha

Affiliation Walter Reed/Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ladaporn Bodhidatta

Affiliation Department of Enteric Diseases, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Yu-Kang Tu

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yun-Yun Gong

Affiliation Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Patricia A. Egner

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Manjeswori Ulak

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

John D. Groopman

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Felicia Wu

fwu@msu.edu

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FW JG YG. Formal analysis: NM. Funding acquisition: FW. Investigation: RKC BS LB MU. Methodology: RKC BS LB MU. Project administration: NM. Resources: PE JG. Supervision: FW. Validation: HH YT YG. Writing – original draft: NM. Writing – review & editing: FW JG RKC BS YG.