About the Authors

Kwong Hsia Yap

Contributed equally to this work with: Kwong Hsia Yap, Sharuna Verghis

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

yap.kwonghsia@monash.edu

Affiliation Jeffrey Cheah School of Medical and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Ashley Koh

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Anesha Kumar

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Magdalene Lahpai

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kah Hoe Cheng

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tharsini Ravindaran

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Priya Vasu

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sharuna Verghis

Contributed equally to this work with: Kwong Hsia Yap, Sharuna Verghis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Jeffrey Cheah School of Medical and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, Health Equity Initiatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

Dr Verghis is on the Board of the organization, Health Equity Initiatives and Solutions Bhd (HEI) through which the main funding body has provided funds for this project. She is not paid by the organization and is not involved in the day-to-day operations. The appropriate conflict of interest form has been duly filled and approved at all levels in the university after establishing commitments of oversight by the supervisor and Head of School and criteria agreed for decision making on the project’s budget which removes her from participating in the decisions. S.V has been working in the area of refugee health at a wider community level for several years. Although the principal and teachers in the school are aware of her role in HEI and in this project, this was also briefed and disclosed during the initial meetings with the school. Other authors listed in this manuscript declare that they have neither financial nor competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.