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Krithiga Shridhar, Email: g.krithiga@phfi.org
Krithiga Shridhar, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing,1,2,* Aastha Aggarwal, Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing,1,2 Ishita Rawal, Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing,2 Ruby Gupta, Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing,1,2 Shet Masih, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing,3 Ravi Mehrotra, Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing,4,5 Theresa W. Gillespie, Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing,6 Preet K. Dhillon, Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing,1,2,7 Dominique S. Michaud, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing,8 Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing,#1,2,5,9 and Michael Goodman, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing#5 David M. Ojcius, Editor
The authors thank Dr. Eliza K. Dutta (Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India) for assistance with project co-ordination and management and Dr. Steena Kuriakose (Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India) for helping with the review of literature.
We declare the commercial affiliation (Genentech Roche, CA, USA) of one of our authors (PKD). This does not alter our adherence to Plos One policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research.
This study was funded by National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Health, USA, (PI’s: Drs. M Goodman and D Prabhakaran), to Emory University, Public Health Foundation of India and Research Triangle Institute, India for Planning a Regional Center of Research Excellence (RCRE) in Non communicable Diseases in India- [Phase I for producing actionable evidence on the prevention and control of high priority NCDs, cancers and diabetes in India]. This was awarded as part of NCI Planning Grant (2016- 2019) – GRANT NUMBER: P20CA210298. Dr. Shridhar is currently supported by the ‘Research Development Grant’ from the Centre for Environmental Health at the Public Health Foundation of India (Grant number: None). Dr. Aggarwal is currently supported by DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Fellowship [Grant number: IA/CPH /17/1/503340]. Funders had no role in the design, data collection, analysis or publication of the manuscript. We declare the commercial affiliation (Genentech Roche, CA, USA) of one of our authors. The funder provided support in the form of salary for the author [PKD], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of all authors of the manuscript are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
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