About the Authors

Matthew C. Freeman

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew C. Freeman, Stephanie Ogden

mcfreem@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Stephanie Ogden

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew C. Freeman, Stephanie Ogden

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children Without Worms, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, International Trachoma Initiative, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Julie Jacobson

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Daniel Abbott

Affiliation Save the Children, Washington, D.C., United States of America

David G. Addiss

Affiliation Children Without Worms, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Asrat G. Amnie

Affiliation Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Colin Beckwith

Affiliation International Trachoma Initiative, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sandy Cairncross

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Rafael Callejas

Affiliation Millennium Water Alliance, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Jack M. Colford Jr

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Paul M. Emerson

Affiliation The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alan Fenwick

Affiliation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca Fishman

Affiliation WASH Advocates, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Kerry Gallo

Affiliation Children Without Worms, Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jack Grimes

Affiliations Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Gagik Karapetyan

Affiliation World Vision, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Brooks Keene

Affiliation CARE International, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Patrick J. Lammie

Affiliations Taskforce for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Global Health, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Chad MacArthur

Affiliation Helen Keller International, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Lochery

Affiliation CARE International, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Helen Petach

Affiliation United States Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Jennifer Platt

Affiliation WASH Advocates, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Sarina Prabasi

Affiliation ORBIS International, New York, New York, United States of America

Jan Willem Rosenboom

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sharon Roy

Affiliation Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Darren Saywell

Affiliation Plan International, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Lisa Schechtman

Affiliation WaterAid America, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Anupama Tantri

Affiliation Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yael Velleman

Affiliation WaterAid UK, London, United Kingdom

Jürg Utzinger

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.