About the Authors

Carol Vlassoff

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vlassofc@gmail.com (CV); limchr@paho.org (CL)

Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Nora Giron

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Strategic Fund, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Mauricio Javier Vera Soto

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Subdireccion de enfermedades transmisibles, Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, Bogotá, Colombia

Ana Nilce Silveira Maia-Elkhoury

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Neglected, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases Unit, Pan American Health Organization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Arush Lal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Strategic Fund, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Luis Gerardo Castellanos

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases Unit, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Gisele Almeida

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Systems and Services, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Christopher Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vlassofc@gmail.com (CV); limchr@paho.org (CL)

Affiliation Strategic Fund, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interest