About the Authors

Bernard Owusu Agyare

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Paul Eder

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Shubhada Shenai

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation FIND, New Delhi, India

Bih H. Chendi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Colin Carlson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ange Iradukunda

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Heart to Heart International, Kigali City, Rwanda

Marithe Mukoka

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Rodolphe Meriuex Laboratory INRB- Goma, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jack Ogony

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Health Sciences, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Olivier Manigart

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations GFA Consulting Group, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, PROALAB, West African Health Organization, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Ephraim Ogbaini-Emovon

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, ISTH, Irrua, Edo, Nigeria

Ahmed A. Seida

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Immunology and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Esteban O. Prado

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University of Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Equador

Anisa Ghadrshenas

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation UNITAID, Geneva, Switzerland

Sergio Carmona

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

Joseph D. Tucker

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jdtucker@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The author(s) declare no competing interests for this work.