About the Authors

Ella August

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

eaugust@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Rachel Gray

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Zaria Griffin

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation University of Michigan Summer Research Opportunity Program, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Matilda Klein

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Current Address: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Greenhills School Advanced Research Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Julie M. Buser

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kirby Morris

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Tamrat Endale

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Hana Teklu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Pebalo Francis Pebolo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

Elizabeth Anderson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Frederique Laubepin

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yolanda R. Smith

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The writing samples in our study came from researchers who had completed a research capacity program conducted by Center for International Reproductive Health Training at the University of Michigan (CIRHT-UM, who funded this research). PREPSS (Pre-Publication Support Service) provided training on writing and publishing for this research capacity program. Ella August is the founder and editor-in-chief of PREPSS and PREPSS employs Kirby Morris (our editorial manager) and Elizabeth Anderson (our copy editor). Other authors are employed by CIRHT-UM, including Yolanda R. Smith, Julie M. Buser, Tamrat Endale, and Rachel Gray. Hanna Teklu was a research fellow who worked with CIRHT-UM in 2024, Pebalo Francis Pebolo completed the CIRHT research capacity training program.