About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); cjlm@uw.edu (CJLM); nagham@uw.edu (MN)

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Houston, Texas, United States of America, James A. Baker III Institute at Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Miriam Alvarado

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

María-Gloria Basáñez

Affiliation Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Ian Bolliger

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rupert Bourne

Affiliation Vision and Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michel Boussinesq

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France

Simon J. Brooker

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Ami Shah Brown

Affiliation Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Geoffrey Buckle

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Christine M. Budke

Affiliation Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Hélène Carabin

Affiliation University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Luc E. Coffeng

Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Eric M. Fèvre

Affiliations Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Thomas Fürst

Affiliations Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Yara A. Halasa

Affiliation Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rashmi Jasrasaria

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nicole E. Johns

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jennifer Keiser

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Charles H. King

Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Rafael Lozano

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michele E. Murdoch

Affiliation Watford General Hospital, Watford, United Kingdom

Simon O'Hanlon

Affiliation Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Sébastien D. S. Pion

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France

Rachel L. Pullan

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kapa D. Ramaiah

Affiliation Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry, India

Thomas Roberts

Affiliation Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Donald S. Shepard

Affiliation Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jennifer L. Smith

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Wilma A. Stolk

Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Eduardo A. Undurraga

Affiliation Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jürg Utzinger

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Mengru Wang

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher J. L. Murray

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); cjlm@uw.edu (CJLM); nagham@uw.edu (MN)

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mohsen Naghavi

Contributed equally to this work with: Peter J. Hotez, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); cjlm@uw.edu (CJLM); nagham@uw.edu (MN)

Affiliation Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: ASB is employed by a commercial company, Inovio Pharmaceuticals. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials. There are no other competing interests to declare.