About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

photez@gwu.edu (PJH); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, D. C., United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Alan Fenwick

photez@gwu.edu (PJH); a.fenwick@imperial.ac.uk (AF)

Affiliation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

PJH and AF are two of the co-founders of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, and AF is Director of the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative.