About the Authors

Chirag K. Kumar

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Kirsty Sands

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Zoology, Oxford, United Kingdom

Timothy R. Walsh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Zoology, Oxford, United Kingdom

Seamus O’Brien

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland

Mike Sharland

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection (CNPI), Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Joseph A. Lewnard

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Hao Hu

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Padmini Srikantiah

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ramanan@onehealthtrust.org

Affiliations Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, One Health Trust, Bengaluru, India

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: two study authors (PS and HH) are employed by an organization that funded the study. They provided input in the writing of the report, acting in a purely scientific capacity. In particular, PS provided critical expertise on K. pneumoniae epidemiology and vaccine development. HH provided valuable insights into modeling bacterial pathogens.