About the Authors

Jake Dunning

‡ Joint first authors.

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Stephen B. Kennedy

‡ Joint first authors.

Affiliation University of Liberia-Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (UL-PIRE) Africa Center, University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia

Annick Antierens

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre, Brussels, Belgium

John Whitehead

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Iza Ciglenecki

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Gail Carson

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rupa Kanapathipillai

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre, Brussels, Belgium

Lyndsey Castle

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rebecca Howell-Jones

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Raul Pardinaz-Solis

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jennifer Grove

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Janet Scott

Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Trudie Lang

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Piero Olliaro

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, UNICEF-UNDP-World Bank-WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Geneva, Switzerland

Peter W. Horby

peter.horby@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

for the RAPIDE-BCV trial team

Membership of the RAPIDE-BCV trial team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have no reported conflicts of interest. PO is a staff member of the World Health Organization (WHO); the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the WHO.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PWH JW PO TL SBK. Data curation: LC RPS. Formal analysis: JW RK LC. Funding acquisition: PWH. Investigation: PWH JD SKB AA IC JS RPS. Methodology: JW PWH PO. Project administration: JG GC. Resources: GC RHJ RPS JS. Supervision: PWH JD SKB. Writing – original draft: PWH JD SBK. Writing – review & editing: PWH JD SKB AA IC JS RPS JS TL PO.