About the Authors

Ann L. Montgomery

cghr@smh.ca

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Usha Ram

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

Rajesh Kumar

Affiliation School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education, Chandigarh, India

Prabhat Jha

Affiliations Centre for Global Health Research, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

for The Million Death Study Collaborators

Membership of the Million Death Study Collaborators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM UR RK PJ. Performed the experiments: AM UR PK RJ. Analyzed the data: AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM UR RK PJ. Wrote the paper: AM UR RK PJ.