About the Authors

Özge Tunçalp

otuncalp@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia Stanton

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Arachu Castro

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard Adanu

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Marilyn Heymann

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh

Affiliation Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Samantha R. Lattof

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ann Blanc

Affiliation Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Ana Langer

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

ÖT and CS conducted this work under Stanton-Hill Research LLC, funded by Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. AC is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. All of the other authors declare no competing interests associated with the work supporting this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OT CS RA KAB AC MH AB AL SL. Performed the experiments: OT AC MH KAB RA. Analyzed the data: OT CS. Wrote the paper: OT CS. Contributed to the interpretation of data from the DR for the manuscript: AC MH. Provided input to the manuscript: AC MH KAB RA AB AL.