About the Authors

Paul M. Emerson

pemerson005@yahoo.com

Affiliation Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Darin Evans

Affiliation United States Agency for International Development, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Matthew C. Freeman

Affiliation Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Christy Hanson

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Khumbo Kalua

Affiliation Blantyre Institute for Community Outreach, Blantyre, Malawi

Jennifer Keiser

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Alejandro Krolewiecki

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones de Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional de Salta/CONICET, Oran, Argentina, Fundacion Mundo Sano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lynn Leonard

Affiliation Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Bruno Levecke

Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Sultani Matendechero

Affiliation Kenya National Public Health Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Arianna Rubin Means

Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Antonio Montresor

Affiliation Ivo de Carneri Foundation, Milano, Italy

Denise Mupfasoni

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

Rachel L. Pullan

Affiliation London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Lisa A. Rotondo

Affiliation RTI International, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Mariana Stephens

Affiliation Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Kristin M. Sullivan

Affiliation Children Without Worms, The Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Judd L. Walson

Affiliation Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tijana Williams

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jürg Utzinger

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PE, MS, and KMS are staff at Children Without Worms, a program of The Task Force for Global Health. The program receives funding from GSK and Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturers of albendazole and mebendazole, respectively. TW and LL are employees of GSK and Johnson & Johnson, respectively. DM is a staff member of the World Health Organization. The views presented here are the consensus views of the authors in their personal capacities and are independent of their organizations’ policies.