Subject: Reminder: GBD 2019 Under-5 Mortality (U5M) Comment and Contribution form due July 1
From: GBD Secretariat <[email-masked]>
To: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:16:21 +0000

Dear colleagues,

As a reminder, the Comment and Contribution form for "Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 all-cause and cause-specific mortality, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” is due before midnight Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, July 1, 2020.

Please do not circulate this draft. You are receiving privileged access as a GBD collaborator, and any circulation or citation could jeopardize the submission review process.

Access the paper here: https://cloud.ihme.washington.edu/s/8m7mYJNWkongmyg

Password: 2019_U5M

To provide comments and contribution information:

Please draft comments using bullet points in Microsoft Word and divide them into the categories listed on the online form.

Copy each section of your comments into the appropriate box on the online Comment and Contribution Form.

Complete the contribution section of the form by detailing the contribution you have made to this manuscript.

If you do not complete the Comment and Contribution Form during the comment period, you will not be a co-author on the paper.

Optional: If your comments refer to any files that cannot be uploaded on the form, please send them as attachments to [email-masked]. Comments themselves will not be accepted via GBD Sec.

Access the online Comment and Contribution form here: https://uwhealthmetrics.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eRNLX3vMuZW009T?Q_DL=fLEmBCwXzZbcn3n_eRNLX3vMuZW009T_CGC_YBSZfTu2i0QmxI4&Q_CHL=email

Please note the following authorship information:

We will use general authorship under the name "GBD 2019 Under-5 Mortality (U5M) Collaborators." A list of author names will replace general authorship at a later time, during the review period.

We will invite you to be a co-author given your specific contributions to the data, analyses, or results by sending you the final version, at which point you will be able to decide if you would like to be listed.

We will keep you updated as the paper moves through the submission and review cycle and thank you again for actively participating in this work.

Best regards,

GBD Secretariat

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