Contributors
Naomi M. Saville:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-3684
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Bhim P. Shrestha: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Sarah Style: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Helen Harris-Fry: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
B. James Beard: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Aman Sen: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Sonali Jha: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Anjana Rai: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Vikas Paudel: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Supervision
Raghbendra Sah: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Puskar Paudel: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Andrew Copas: Role: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Bishnu Bhandari: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Rishi Neupane: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Joanna Morrison: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Lu Gram: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Jolene Skordis-Worrall: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Machhindra Basnet: Role: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review
& editing
Saskia de Pee: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Andrew Hall: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Jayne Harthan: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Meelan Thondoo: Role: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Sonja Klingberg: Role: InvestigationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Janice Messick: Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Dharma S. Manandhar: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
David Osrin: Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Anthony Costello: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Jacobus P. van Wouwe: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
9
May
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0194064
Affiliations
[1
]
Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
[2
]
Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Kathmandu, Nepal
[3
]
MRC Clinical Trials Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom
[4
]
UN World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
[5
]
Save the Children UK, London, United Kingdom
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
[¤a]
Current address: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
[¤b]
Current address: Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University,
Umeå, Sweden
[¤c]
Current address: Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University,
Boston, MA, United States of America
[¤d]
Current address: World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-29560
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194064
PMC ID: 5942768
PubMed ID: 29742136
SO-VID: a0e0a203-d5a4-479f-a460-4e21ca5bad2a
Copyright © © 2018 Saville et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 10
August
2017
Date
accepted
: 20
February
2018
Page count
Figures: 2,
Tables: 7,
Pages: 29
Funding
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000278, Department for International Development;
Award ID: PO 5675
Award Recipient
:
Anthony Costello
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269, Economic and Social Research Council;
Award ID: ES/I033572/1
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-3684
Naomi M. Saville
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269, Economic and Social Research Council;
Award ID: ES/I033572/1
Award Recipient
:
Joanna Morrison
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440, Wellcome Trust;
Award ID: 085417MA/Z/08/Z
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-3684
Naomi M. Saville
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440, Wellcome Trust;
Award ID: 085417MA/Z/08/Z
Award Recipient
:
Anthony Costello
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265, Medical Research Council;
Award ID: MR/K007270/1
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-3684
Naomi M. Saville
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440, Wellcome Trust;
Award ID: 091561/Z/10/Z
Award Recipient
:
David Osrin
Funded by: CHRAT PhD studentship
Award Recipient
:
Helen Harris-Fry
Funded by: CHRAT PhD studentship
Award Recipient
:
Lu Gram
Primary funder: UKaid from Department for International Development South Asia Research
Hub. Grant number: PO 5675 (
https://www.gov.uk/dfid-research-outputs/protocol-of-the-low-birth-weight-south-asia-trial-lbwsat). Partial funding of UCL team members: i) Economic and Social Research Council and
the Department for International Development. Grant number: ES/I033572/1 (NMS and
JM)
http://www.researchcatalogue.esrc.ac.uk/grants/RES-167-25-0682/outputs/read/3a868b75-18cc-47c6-ad89-88f3b8b2ab66; ii) Wellcome Trust Strategic Award for the Population Science of Maternal and Newborn
Survival. Grant number: 085417MA/Z/08/Z (NMS and AMC)
https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/grants-awarded; iii) Medical Research Council Grant number:MR/K007270/1 (NMS)
http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR%2FK007270%2F1; iv) Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship number 091561/Z/10/Z (DO)
https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/directories/senior-research-fellowships-clinical-science-people-funded; and v) two UCL Institute of Child Health Child Health Research Appeal Trust (CHRAT)
PhD studentships (HHF and LG)
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/about-us/cio/cio-overview. Role of the primary funding source: The UK Department for International Development
(DfID) produced a Terms of Reference for the tender for the trial, stipulating broadly
the four study arms and design. They reviewed the protocol and an early draft of this
manuscript prior to submission. Otherwise, the funder had no role in the detailed
study design, data collection, management, analysis, interpretation, or writing up.
NMS had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for
the decision to submit for publication.
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