About the Authors

Abdul Wajid

wajid_ab@yahoo.com

Affiliation College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Franklin White

Affiliations School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, NS, Canada, Pacific Health & Development Sciences Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada

Mehtab S. Karim

Affiliation School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Franklin White is President at Pacific Health & Development Sciences Inc. This firm is engaged primarily in third party monitoring and evaluation of donor funded health development projects. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW FW MSK. Performed the experiments: AW. Analyzed the data: AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW. Wrote the paper: AW. Critically reviewed the manuscript: FW MSK. Provided final approval: AW FW MSK.