About the Authors

Robert F. Breiman

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert F. Breiman, Dianna M. Blau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rfbreiman@emory.edu

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dianna M. Blau

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert F. Breiman, Dianna M. Blau

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Portia Mutevedzi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Innovation/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Victor Akelo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Kisumu, Kenya

Inacio Mandomando

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça [CISM], Manhica, Mozambique, Instituto Nacional de Saúde [INS], Manhiça, Mozambique

Ikechukwu U. Ogbuanu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Crown Agents, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Samba O. Sow

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD-Mali), Ministère de la Santé, Bamako, Mali, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lola Madrid

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia

Shams El Arifeen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mischka Garel

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Nana Bukiwe Thwala

Roles Investigation

Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Innovation/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dickens Onyango

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kisumu County, Kenya Department of Health, Kisumu, Kenya

Antonio Sitoe

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça [CISM], Manhica, Mozambique

Ima-Abasi Bassey

Roles Investigation

Affiliation ICAP–Columbia University, Makeni, Sierra Leone

Adama Mamby Keita

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD-Mali), Ministère de la Santé, Bamako, Mali

Addisu Alemu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia

Muntasir Alam

Roles Investigation

Affiliation International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sana Mahtab

Roles Investigation

Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Innovation/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dickson Gethi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Center for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya

Rosauro Varo

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça [CISM], Manhica, Mozambique, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Julius Ojulong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation ICAP–Columbia University, Makeni, Sierra Leone

Solomon Samura

Roles Investigation

Affiliation World Hope International, Makeni, Sierra Leone

Ashka Mehta

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alexander M. Ibrahim

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia

Afruna Rahman

Roles Investigation

Affiliation International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pio Vitorino

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça [CISM], Manhica, Mozambique

Vicky L. Baillie

Roles Investigation

Affiliation South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Janet Agaya

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Center for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya

Milagritos D. Tapia

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nega Assefa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia

Atique Iqbal Chowdhury

Roles Investigation

Affiliation International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

J. Anthony G. Scott

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Emily S. Gurley

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Karen L. Kotloff

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amara Jambai

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Quique Bassat

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça [CISM], Manhica, Mozambique, ISGlobal, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital de Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Consorcio de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Beth A. Tippett-Barr

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya, Kisumu, Kenya

Shabir A. Madhi

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Innovation/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Cynthia G. Whitney

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

the CHAMPS Consortium

Membership of the CHAMPS Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: QB, a co-author of this paper is also a Guest Editor on this special issue on Global Child Health: From Birth to Adolescence and Beyond. QB was not directly involved in editorial decisions regarding this paper. JAGS reports current funding for other projects to his institution (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) from the UK Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Gavi, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the UK National Institute for Health Research.