About the Authors

Susanne F. Awad

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha, Qatar

Sema K. Sgaier

Affiliations Surgo Foundation, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Fiona K. Lau

Affiliation Surgo Foundation, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Yousra A. Mohamoud

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha, Qatar

Bushimbwa C. Tambatamba

Affiliation Ministry of Community Development and Mother and Child Health, Lusaka, Zambia

Katharine E. Kripke

Affiliation Health Policy Initiative, Avenir Health, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Anne G. Thomas

Affiliation Naval Health Research Center, U.S. Department of Defense, San Diego, California, United States of America

Naomi Bock

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jason B. Reed

Affiliation Jhpiego, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Emmanuel Njeuhmeli

Affiliation United States Agency for International Development, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Laith J. Abu-Raddad

lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, College of Public Health, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha, Qatar

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SFA SKS LJA. Data curation: SFA LJA. Formal analysis: SFA SKS LJA. Funding acquisition: LJA. Investigation: SFA SKS FKL YAM BCT KEK AGT NB JBR EN LJA. Methodology: SFA SKS LJA. Project administration: SFA SKS FKL LJA. Resources: SKS FKL. Software: SFA. Supervision: LJA. Validation: SFA SKS LJA. Visualization: SFA LJA. Writing – original draft: SFA. Writing – review & editing: SFA SKS FKL YAM BCT KEK AGT NB JBR EN LJA.