About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

hotez@bcm.edu

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, National School of Tropical Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Wendy Harrison

Affiliation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Alan Fenwick

Affiliation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Amaya L. Bustinduy

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

Camilla Ducker

Affiliation Uniting to Combat NTDs, London, United Kingdom

Pamela Sabina Mbabazi

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

Dirk Engels

Affiliation Uniting to Combat NTDs, London, United Kingdom

Eyrun Floerecke Kjetland

Affiliations Regional Advisory Unit for Imported and Tropical Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Ullevaal, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Discipline of Public Health Medicine, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

PJH is a patentholder and investigator on a vaccine against schistosomiasis that is in clinical trials.