About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Kristy O. Murray, Pierre Buekens

hotez@bcm.edu (PH); kmurray@bcm.edu (KM); pbuekens@tulane.edu (PB)

Affiliations Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kristy O. Murray

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Kristy O. Murray, Pierre Buekens

hotez@bcm.edu (PH); kmurray@bcm.edu (KM); pbuekens@tulane.edu (PB)

Affiliation Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Pierre Buekens

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Kristy O. Murray, Pierre Buekens

hotez@bcm.edu (PH); kmurray@bcm.edu (KM); pbuekens@tulane.edu (PB)

Affiliation Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.