Modelling for policy: The five principles of the Neglected Tropical Diseases Modelling Consortium

• Matthew R. Behrend ,

  * E-mail: behrend04@gmail.com

  Affiliations Neglected Tropical Diseases, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Blue Well 8, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5664-0520

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• María-Gloria Basáñez,

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan I. D. Hamley,

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Travis C. Porco,

  Affiliation Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

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• Wilma A. Stolk,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Martin Walker,

  Affiliations London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Sake J. de Vlas,

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1830-5668

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• for the NTD Modelling Consortium