About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); nana-kwadwo.Biritwum@gatesfoundation.org (N-KB); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF); david.molyneux@lstmed.ac.uk (DHM); sachs@columbia.edu (JDS)

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, James A Baker III Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Policy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); nana-kwadwo.Biritwum@gatesfoundation.org (N-KB); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF); david.molyneux@lstmed.ac.uk (DHM); sachs@columbia.edu (JDS)

Affiliations Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Alan Fenwick

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); nana-kwadwo.Biritwum@gatesfoundation.org (N-KB); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF); david.molyneux@lstmed.ac.uk (DHM); sachs@columbia.edu (JDS)

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

David H. Molyneux

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); nana-kwadwo.Biritwum@gatesfoundation.org (N-KB); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF); david.molyneux@lstmed.ac.uk (DHM); sachs@columbia.edu (JDS)

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jeffrey D. Sachs

hotez@bcm.edu (PJH); nana-kwadwo.Biritwum@gatesfoundation.org (N-KB); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF); david.molyneux@lstmed.ac.uk (DHM); sachs@columbia.edu (JDS)

Affiliation Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

PJH is lead investigator on several vaccines against neglected tropical diseases in development and in clinical trials.