About the Authors

Mari Armstrong-Hough

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mah842@nyu.edu

Affiliation School of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States of America

Srish Sharma

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Sandeep P. Kishore

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network, New York, New York, United States of America

Ann R. Akiteng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda

Jeremy I. Schwartz

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

Affiliations Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: This study was partly funded by Knoema, a commercial data technology company. Knoema provided funding for data collection and the development of the data collection and management tool. SPK has served as a consultant for Resolve to Save Lives for hypertension control and has led partnership on multiple chronic conditions supported by the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Teva Pharmaceuticals, but did not receive any funding from Teva Pharmaceuticals for this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.