About the Authors

Sukumar Vellakkal

sukumar.vellakkal@phfi.org

Affiliation South Asia Network for Chronic Diseases, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

S. V. Subramanian

Affiliation Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christopher Millett

Affiliations South Asia Network for Chronic Diseases, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sanjay Basu

Affiliations Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

David Stuckler

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Sociology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Shah Ebrahim

Affiliations South Asia Network for Chronic Diseases, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV SVS SE. Performed the experiments: SV SVS CM SB DS SE. Analyzed the data: SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV SVS CM SB DS SE. Wrote the paper: SV SVS CM SB DS SE. Conceptualized the study: SV SE. Did the data analysis, interpretation of results and first draft of the paper: SV. Contributed during the conceptualization and interpretation of results and substantially contributed to the revision: CM SB DS SVS SE. Reviewed the final draft of the paper: SVS CM SB DS SE SV. Supervised the study: SE SVS.