About the Authors

Peter Waiswa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Centre of Excellence, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Brennan V. Higgins

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

brennan.vail@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Paul Mubiri

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Centre of Excellence, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Leah Kirumbi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Elizabeth Butrick

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rikita Merai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nancy L. Sloan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Dilys Walker

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

and the Preterm Birth Initiative Kenya & Uganda Implementation Research Collaborative

The individuals who make up the Preterm Birth Initiative Kenya & Uganda Implementation Research Collaborative are listed in the author contributions section at the end of the manuscript.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.