About the Authors

Neil Thalagala

Affiliation National Child Health Programme, Family Health Bureau, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hasitha Tissera

Affiliations Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka, National Dengue Control Unit, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Paba Palihawadana

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ananda Amarasinghe

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Anuradha Ambagahawita

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Annelies Wilder-Smith

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Donald S. Shepard

Affiliation Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yeşim Tozan

tozan@nyu.edu

Affiliations Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany, College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NT HT YT. Performed the experiments: NT AAmb. Analyzed the data: NT AAmb YT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NT HT PP AAmb AAma AWS DSS YT. Wrote the paper: NT HT AWS DSS YT.