About the Authors

Eveline M. Bunge

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pallas Health Research and Consultancy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bernard Hoet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

beho@bavarian-nordic.com

Affiliation Bavarian Nordic AG, Zug, Switzerland

Liddy Chen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bavarian Nordic, Inc., Morrisville, North Carolina, United States of America

Florian Lienert

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bavarian Nordic AG, Zug, Switzerland

Heinz Weidenthaler

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bavarian Nordic GmbH, Martinsried, Germany

Lorraine R. Baer

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Baer PharMed Consulting, Ltd., Skokie, Illinois, United States of America

Robert Steffen

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, WHO Collaborating Center on Travelers’ Health, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Bernard Hoet, Liddy Chen, Florian Lienert, and Heinz Weidenthaler are employees of Bavarian Nordic. Eveline M. Bunge is an employee of Pallas Health Research Consultancy. Lorraine R. Baer is an employee of Baer PharMed Consulting, Ltd., which received funding for the preparation of the manuscript. Robert Steffen has been paid for lectures and participation in advisory boards by various vaccine manufacturers, including Bavarian Nordic. Please note that the study was fully funded by Bavarian Nordic with two contracts, first with Pallas Health Research and Consultancy to perform the systematic review, second with Baer PharMed Consulting, Ltd to support manuscript development. It is only after reviewing the data acknowledging the public health importance that the authors decided to submit a manuscript on the subject. The following authors received salary from the funder (BH, LC, FL, HW). The funder had a role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.