About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, Center for Health and Biosciences, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Ashish Damania

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Aparna Barua

Affiliation Sabin Foundation Europe, London, United Kingdom

Jeffrey Stanaway

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

PJH is lead investigator on several vaccines against neglected tropical diseases, including vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis, which are in clinical trials, and vaccines in development against other NTDs including leishmaniasis. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.