About the Authors

Oriol Mitjà

oriol.mitja@isglobal.org

Affiliations Skin NTDs Program, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Division of Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Michael Marks

Affiliations Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Laia Bertran

Affiliation Skin NTDs Program, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Karsor Kollie

Affiliation Neglected Tropical and Non Communicable Diseases Program, Ministry of Health, Government of Liberia, Liberia

Daniel Argaw

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Ahmed H. Fahal

Affiliation The Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Christopher Fitzpatrick

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

L. Claire Fuller

Affiliation International Foundation for Dermatology, London, United Kingdom

Bernardo Garcia Izquierdo

Affiliation Anesvad foundation, Bilbao, Spain

Roderick Hay

Affiliation International Foundation for Dermatology, London, United Kingdom

Norihisa Ishii

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Christian Johnson

Affiliation Fondation Raoul Follereau, Cotonou, République du Bénin

Jeffrey V. Lazarus

Affiliation Skin NTDs Program, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Anthony Meka

Affiliation Medical Department, German Leprosy and TB Relief Association, Enugu, Nigeria

Michele Murdoch

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Watford General Hospital, Watford, United Kingdom

Sally-Ann Ohene

Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office, Accra, Ghana

Pam Small

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Andrew Steer

Affiliation Group A Streptococcal Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Earnest N. Tabah

Affiliation National Yaws, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy and Buruli ulcer Control Programme, Ministry of Public Health, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Alexandre Tiendrebeogo

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo

Lance Waller

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rie Yotsu

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Stephen L. Walker

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kingsley Asiedu

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.