About the Authors

Lesley J. Drake

Lesley.Drake@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sarman Singh

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology & Molecular Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

C. K. Mishra

Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bihar, Bihar, India

Amarjeet Sinha

Current address: Department of Social Welfare, Government of Bihar, Bihar, India

Affiliation Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bihar, Bihar, India

Sanjay Kumar

Current address: Office of the Chief Minister, Government of Jharkhand, India

Affiliation State Health Society, Bihar, India

Rajesh Bhushan

Current address: Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Rural Development, Government of India

Affiliation Bihar Education Project Council, Bihar, India

T. Deirdre Hollingsworth

Affiliations London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Warwick Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Laura J. Appleby

Affiliations Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Rakesh Kumar

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Kriti Sharma

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yogita Kumar

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Sri Raman

† Deceased.

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Stalin Chakrabarty

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Jimmy H. Kihara

Affiliation Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya

N. K. Gunawardena

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Grace Hollister

Affiliations Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Innovations for Poverty Action, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Evidence Action, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Vandana Kumar

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Anish Ankur

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Babul Prasad

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Sushma Ramachandran

Affiliation Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Alissa Fishbane

Affiliations Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Innovations for Poverty Action, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Prerna Makkar

Affiliations Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Deworm the World, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.