About the Authors

Muhammad Farhan Majid

farhan.majid@rice.edu

Affiliation Center for Health and Biosciences, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Su Jin Kang

Affiliation Center for Health and Biosciences, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

Affiliations Center for Health and Biosciences, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PJH is principal investigator on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis which are in clinical trials.