About the Authors

The PLOS Medicine Editors

medicine_editors@plos.org

Affiliations Public Library of Science, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Public Library of Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Annette Rid

Affiliation Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael A. Johansson

Affiliations Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gabriel Leung

Affiliation Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Hannah Valantine

Affiliations Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Laboratory of Genome Transplantation, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Esteban G. Burchard

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sam S. Oh

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cathy Zimmerman

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The following authors have no competing interests to declare: EGB, SSO, HAV, CZ, MAJ, ARi, GML. The PLOS Medicine Editors' individual competing interests are at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/staff-editors. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salaries are not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LN. Writing – original draft: CG TM LN LP AR PS RT EGB SSO HAV CZ MAJ ARi GML. Writing – review & editing: CG TM LN LP AR PS RT EGB SSO HAV CZ MAJ ARi GML.