Identifying and prioritising barriers to injury care in Northern Malawi, results of a multifacility multidisciplinary health facility staff survey

• John Whitaker ,

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

  * E-mail: j.whitaker@bham.ac.uk

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5877-4496

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• Taniel Njawala,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (formerly Karonga Prevention Study), Chilumba, Malawi

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• Vitumbeku Nyirenda,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (formerly Karonga Prevention Study), Chilumba, Malawi

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• Abena S. Amoah,

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

  Affiliations Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (formerly Karonga Prevention Study), Chilumba, Malawi, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Albert Dube,

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

  Affiliation Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (formerly Karonga Prevention Study), Chilumba, Malawi

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• Lindani Chirwa,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Karonga District Hospital, Karonga District Health Office, Karonga, Malawi, School of Medicine & Oral Health, Department of Pathology, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Blantyre, Malawi

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• Boston Munthali,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mzuzu Central Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mzuzu, Malawi, Lilongwe Institute of Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Rory Rickard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Andrew J. M. Leather ,

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

  ¶‡ AJML and JD are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Justine Davies

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AJML and JD are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Global Surgery, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6834-1838

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