About the Authors

Piero Olliaro

Affiliation UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Florence Fouque

Affiliation UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Axel Kroeger

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

Leigh Bowman

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Raman Velayudhan

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (WHO/NTD), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Ana Carolina Santelli

Affiliation Dengue Control Program, Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Brazil

Diego Garcia

Affiliation Department of Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Bogota, Colombia

Ronald Skewes Ramm

Affiliation Program for the Prevention and Control of Dengue, Ministry of Health, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Lokman H. Sulaiman

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Gustavo Sanchez Tejeda

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Programas Preventivos y Control de Enfermedades (CENAPRECE), Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico

Fabiàn Correa Morales

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Programas Preventivos y Control de Enfermedades (CENAPRECE), Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico

Ernesto Gozzer

Affiliation Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

César Basso Garrido

Affiliation Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Luong Chan Quang

Affiliation Department for Disease Control and Prevention, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Gamaliel Gutierrez

Affiliation PAHO/AMRO, World Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America

Zaida E. Yadon

Affiliation PAHO/AMRO, World Health Organization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Silvia Runge-Ranzinger

s.runge-ranzinger@t-online.de

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.