About the Authors

Leigh R. Bowman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

leigh.bowman@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland

Joacim Rocklöv

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Axel Kroeger

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Piero Olliaro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Ronald Skewes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. PO is a staff member of the WHO; the authors alone are responsible for the opinion expressed in this paper which may not reflect the options and policies of WHO.