About the Authors

Kebede Deribe

Kebededeka@yahoo.com

Affiliations Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Simon J. Brooker

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Rachel L. Pullan

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Asrat Hailu

Affiliation School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Fikre Enquselassie

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Richard Reithinger

Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, International Development Group, Research Triangle Institute, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Melanie Newport

Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Gail Davey

Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

KD was supported by TOMS Shoes for preparatory work of mapping podoconiosis in Ethiopia during the writing of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD SJB GD. Performed the experiments: KD SJB RLP GD. Analyzed the data: KD SJB RLP GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJB RLP. Wrote the paper: KD SJB RLP AH FE RR MN GD.