About the Authors

Lucia Helena de Oliveira

oliveirl@paho.org

Affiliation Immunization Unit/FGL, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization (PAHO), Washington DC, United States of America

Luiz Antonio B. Camacho

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, National Public Health School (ENSP), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Evandro S. F. Coutinho

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Health, National Public Health School (ENSP), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Martha S. Martinez-Silveira

Affiliation Library, Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Ana Flavia Carvalho

Affiliation Vaccine Advocacy and Education, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington DC, United States of America

Cuauhtemoc Ruiz-Matus

Affiliation Immunization Unit/FGL, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization (PAHO), Washington DC, United States of America

Cristiana M. Toscano

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Pathology and Public Health (IPTSP), Federal University of Goias (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT. Data curation: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT. Formal analysis: LHO LABC ESFC CMT. Funding acquisition: LHO CRM. Investigation: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT. Methodology: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT. Project administration: LHO. Resources: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT. Supervision: LHO. Visualization: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT. Writing – original draft: LHO LABC AFC CMT. Writing – review & editing: LHO LABC ESFC MSMS AFC CRM CMT.