Gernand, Alison D.
Gallagher, Kelly
Bhandari, Nita
Kolsteren, Patrick
Lee, Anne CC
Shafiq, Yasir
Taneja, Sunita
Tielsch, James M.
Abate, Firehiwot Workneh
Baye, Estifanos
Berhane, Yemane
Chowdhury, Ranadip
Dailey-Chwalibóg, Trenton
de Kok, Brenda
Dhabhai, Neeta
Jehan, Fyezah
Kang, Yunhee
Katz, Joanne
Khatry, Subarna
Lachat, Carl
Mazumder, Sarmila
Muhammad, Ameer
Nisar, Muhammad Imran
Sharma, Sitanshi
Martin, Leigh A.
Upadhyay, Ravi Prakash
Christian, Parul
Chan, Grace J.
Derebe, Mulatu M.
Van Dyk, Fred
Mullany, Luke C.
Erchick, Daniel
Eglovitch, Michelle S.
Lu, Chunling
North, Krysten
Olson, Ingrid E.
Fasil, Nebiyou
Kidane, Workagegnehu T.
Shiferie, Fisseha
Shiferaw, Tigest
Tsegaye, Fitsum
Tsegaye, Sitota
Isanaka, Sheila
Molina, Rose L.
Stojanov, Michele D.
Wylie, Blair J.
Tadesse, Amare W.
Huybregts, Lieven
Toe, Laeticia C.
Argaw, Alemayehu
Hanley-Cook, Giles
Dewan, Rupali
Mittal, Pratima
Chellani, Harish
Lama, Tsering P.
Baloch, Benazir
Ciulei, Mihaela A.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United States (INV-022373)
Article History
Received: 21 July 2022
Accepted: 9 January 2023
First Online: 11 February 2023
Declarations
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: This study is describing our process of harmonizing variables that will be collected across multiple trials. As such, no Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approval was required.
: Not applicable.
: We have read and understood the BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth policy on declaration of interests. All authors have been funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. ACL received grants or contracts from NICHD and the WHO, received license to Biliruler Granted from BWH to Little Sparrows Technologies, consulting fee from WHO and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, has a patent for Biliruler, participated in the Data Safety Monitoring Board or Advisory Board for PRIMES study at the University of California San Francisco. PC worked at the BMGF from 2015 to 2019 during which the BEP trials were funded. ADG, KG, NB, PK, ACL, YS, JT, ST, RC, BDK, CL, ND, JK, SK, AM, LT, RPU, and PC obtained support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to travel to Seattle in February 2020 to participate in the meeting for this initiative. JT participated on a Data Safety Monitoring Board or Advisory Board at University of North Carolina and University of California San Francisco on studies unrelated to this manuscript. JT was a non-profit board member, unpaid, for the Helen Keller International, which may use the results of these trials, depending on the results, in their programming. JT was a non-profit board member, unpaid, for the Health Volunteers Overseas that conducts work unrelated to the topic of this manuscript.