About the Authors

Janny M. Goris

Contributed equally to this work with: Janny M. Goris, Victor J. Temple

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PNG Foundation, North Tomborine, QLD, Australia

Victor J. Temple

Contributed equally to this work with: Janny M. Goris, Victor J. Temple

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

templevj@upng.ac.pg

Affiliation School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Nienke Zomerdijk

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD Australia

Karen Codling

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Iodine Global Network, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.