Review of recent innovations in portable child growth measurement devices for use in low- and middle-income countries

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Ulster University colleagues, Professor John Anthony Byrne (principal investigator for the SAFEWATER project), Ms Vanessa Ross (SAFEWATER Project Manager) and Ms Anna Zmuda-Trzebiatowska (Global Grants Development Manager) for their guidance and support throughout the project. We are grateful to all the growth measurement device developers for sharing their product information with us. The authors accept full responsibility for this paper and have no competing interests. Funding The authors wish to acknowledge funding from the Department of Economy, The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Internal Pump Priming Call, in turn building upon a much larger GCRF, UK Research and Innovation grant for the SAFEWATER project (EPSRC Grant Reference EP/P032427/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD