About the Authors

Piero L. Olliaro

olliarop@who.int

Affiliations UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research & Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tushar A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman

Affiliation Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Baburam Marasini

Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal

A. C. Dhariwal

Affiliation National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, New Delhi, India

Ahmed Be-Nazir

Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Ministry of Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dinesh Mondal

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Megha Raj Banjara

Affiliation Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Pradeep Das

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute (RMRI)–ICMR, Patna, India

Shyam Sundar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Suman Rijal

Affiliation Drugs for neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Byron Arana

Affiliation Drugs for neglected Diseases initiative DNDi, Geneva, Switzerland

Jorge Alvar

Affiliation Drugs for neglected Diseases initiative DNDi, Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Argaw

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Rosanna W. Peeling

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

Axel Kroeger

Affiliations UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research & Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland, Centre for Medicine and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Greg Matlashewski

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.