About the Authors

Oriol Mitjà

omitja@lluita.org

Affiliation Fight Infectious Diseases Foundation, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Katherine Gass

Affiliation NTD Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Michael Marks

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

Philip J. Cooper

Affiliations Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Petter J. Diggle

Affiliations Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Lance Waller

Affiliation Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Patrick Agana-Nsiire

Affiliation Anesvad Foundation, Accra, Ghana

Belen Lardizabal Dofitas

Affiliation University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

Louise Dyson

Affiliation Mathematics Institute and School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Julie Jacobson

Affiliation Bridges to Development, Vashon, Washington, United States of America

John Kaldor

Affiliation Kirby Institute, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sung Hye Kim

Affiliation Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Susana Vaz Nery

Affiliation Kirby Institute, UNSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Chandrakant Revankar

Affiliation Public health medical consultant, North Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Ghislain Sopoh

Affiliation Regional Institute of Public Health, University of Abomey—Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

Anthony W. Solomon

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Daniel Argaw Dagne

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Priya Pathak

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Aya Yajima

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Zaw Lin

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Mahoutondji Yves Thierry Barogui

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo

Ronaldo Carvalho Scholte

Affiliation Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Kazim Hizbullah Sanikullah

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines

Chris Drakeley

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

Gillian Stresman

Affiliations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

John Gyapong

Affiliation Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

Kingsley Bampoe Asiedu

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.