About the Authors

Margaret Chan

porria@who.int

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Michel Kazatchkine

Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Julian Lob-Levyt

Affiliation Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), Geneva, Switzerland

Thoraya Obaid

Affiliation United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New York, New York, United States of America

Julian Schweizer

Affiliation Human Development Network, World Bank, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Michel Sidibe

Affiliation Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva, Switzerland

Ann Veneman

Affiliation United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York, New York, United States of America

Tadataka Yamada

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: MC MK JLL TO JS MS AV TY. Contributed to the writing of the paper: MC MK JLL TO JS MS AV TY.