About the Authors

Kevin J. Olival

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin J. Olival, Paul M. Cryan

olival@ecohealthalliance.org (KJO); cryanp@usgs.gov (PMC)

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Paul M. Cryan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin J. Olival, Paul M. Cryan

olival@ecohealthalliance.org (KJO); cryanp@usgs.gov (PMC)

Affiliation US Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Brian R. Amman

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ralph S. Baric

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

David S. Blehert

Affiliation US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Cara E. Brook

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Charles H. Calisher

Affiliation Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Kevin T. Castle

Affiliation Wildlife Veterinary Consulting, Livermore, Colorado, United States of America

Jeremy T. H. Coleman

Affiliation US Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Daszak

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Jonathan H. Epstein

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Hume Field

Affiliations EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America, Bat Conservation International, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Winifred F. Frick

Affiliations School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland, Australia, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Amy T. Gilbert

Affiliation US Department of Agriculture, National Wildlife Research Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

David T. S. Hayman

Affiliation School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Hon S. Ip

Affiliation US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

William B. Karesh

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Christine K. Johnson

Affiliation One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Rebekah C. Kading

Affiliation Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Tigga Kingston

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Lorch

Affiliation US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ian H. Mendenhall

Affiliation Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore

Alison J. Peel

Affiliation Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

Kendra L. Phelps

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Raina K. Plowright

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

DeeAnn M. Reeder

Affiliation Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jonathan D. Reichard

Affiliation US Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan M. Sleeman

Affiliation US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Daniel G. Streicker

Affiliations Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Jonathan S. Towner

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lin-Fa Wang

Affiliation Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.