About the Authors

Wladimir J. Alonso

Wladimir.Alonso@nih.gov

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Origem Scientifica, Epidemiology and Modeling, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Maia A. Rabaa

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Clinical Research Unit, Oxford University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ricardo Giglio

Affiliation Department of Economics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Mark A. Miller

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia Schuck-Paim

Affiliation Origem Scientifica, Epidemiology and Modeling, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

WJA and CSP serve as directors of Origem Scientifica (Sao Paulo, Brazil), a company specializing in the analysis of global health data.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJA MAM. Performed the experiments: WJA CSP RG. Analyzed the data: WJA CSP RG MAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJA CSP RG MAM MAR. Wrote the paper: WJA CSP RG MAR MAM.