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Bernadette Daelmans, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. E‐mail: daelmansb@who.int
AB and EF conceptualized the Optifood tool. AB and BD provided oversight to the development of the Optifood tool and CKL, HP, EC, NM and RM provided oversight to the development of the ProPAN tool. EF wrote the linear programming models and technically guided the design of the electronic platform and its field testing. MW led the development of and updates to the Optifood reference data files and gave technical advice throughout the process. HP co‐ordinated the harmonization of ProPAN and Optifood, HCK participated in the development of ProPAN. HCK, RP and NS field tested Optifood. BD, CKL, HP, EF, NS, HCK, RP and NM drafted sections of the manuscript. All authors read, edited and approved the final manuscript.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and FANTA provided technical contributions to the development of the second edition of ProPAN. Dr Nicole Darmon from the National Research Institute of Agronomy, Marseilles, France, Dr Zaid Chalabi from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Robert Stanley from University College London, London, UK provided technical contributions to the development of Optifood. Carmen Casanovas and Divya Shankar provided editorial support to the manuscript.
Helena Pachón works at the Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI) which receives in‐kind contributions from vitamin and mineral pre‐mix companies to host meals and breaks at FFI co‐sponsored workshops held worldwide. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Funding for the development of Optifood was provided through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under terms of Cooperative Agreement No. AID‐OAA‐A‐12‐00005, through the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA), managed by FHI 360, with additional funding from the UBS Optimus Foundation, WHO Headquarters and the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific.
Funding for ProPAN was provided in part by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Helena Pachón's time was supported by an appointment to the Research Participation Program at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the US Department of Energy and CDC.
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