About the Authors

Arianna Rubin Means

aerubin@u.washington.edu

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

Alison Krentel

Affiliation Bruyère Research Institute and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottowa, Canada

Sally Theobald

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Laura Dean

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Pamela Sabina Mbabazi

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

Thoko Elphick-Pooley

Affiliation Uniting to Combat NTDs Support Centre, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Fiona M. Fleming

Affiliation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Julie Jacobson

Affiliation Uniting to Combat NTDs Support Centre, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Sarah Simpson

Affiliation EquiACT, Lyon, France

Camilla Ducker

Affiliation Uniting to Combat NTDs Support Centre, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read and understood the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases policy on competing interests and declare the following interests: SS has received funding from the World Health Organization as consultancy fees and related travel costs for work on integrating a gender and equity focus into public health programs. This has included the development of the working version of the WHO guidance 'Towards universal coverage for preventive chemotherapy for Neglected Tropical Diseases: guidance for assessing "who is being left behind and why"' – 2016–2018. SS currently has a consultancy for field testing of the working version of the guidance. In addition, SS participated in the Women and Girls in Focus meeting on NTDs in London in July 2016 and received funding for a consultancy from Sightsavers to assist in preparation of the report from the meeting. SS also has undertaken other consultancies for WHO during the past five years related to equity, gender and public health programs such as the development of the evidence report for the WHO Regional Office for Europe on women's health and well-being. The authors have no other financial or non-financial interests to declare.