About the Authors
- Jocelyn Brown
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Heather Machen
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Kondwani Kawaza
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
- Zondiwe Mwanza
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
- Suzanne Iniguez
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Care, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Hans Lang
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Alfred Gest
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Neil Kennedy
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
- Robert Miros
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Affiliation 3rd Stone Design, San Rafael, California, United States of America
- Rebecca Richards-Kortum
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* E-mail: rkortum@rice.edu
Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Elizabeth Molyneux
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi
- Maria Oden
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Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
Author Robert Miros is CEO of 3rd Stone Design. 3rd Stone is involved in developing the bCPAP device into a commercial product. Thus far, he has been contracted as part of a grant to produce 114 bCPAP devices. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Designed and fabricated prototype: JB RM RRK MO. Conceived and designed the experiments: JB HM RRK EM MO. Performed the experiments: JB KK ZM HL NK RM EM. Analyzed the data: JB KK RM RRK EM AG MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SI AG RM. Wrote the paper: JB RRK MO.