About the Authors
- Rabindra R. Abeyasinghe
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Affiliation Country Office, World Health Organization, Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
- Gawrie N. L. Galappaththy
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Affiliation Anti-Malaria Campaign, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Cara Smith Gueye
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* E-mail: smithc1@globalhealth.ucsf.edu
Affiliation Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- James G. Kahn
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Affiliation Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Richard G. A. Feachem
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Affiliation Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: RRA is currently supported by the World Health Organization. During the period of case study data collection and write up, RRA was supported by the Anti-Malaria Campaign, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. GNLG is supported by the Anti-Malaria Campaign, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. GNLG represents Sri Lanka in the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) and RRA chaired the APMEN Advisory Board. RRA is a member of the Malaria Elimination Group. RGAF is the Director of the UCSF Global Health Group, chair of the Malaria Elimination Group and is also the Network Chair of APMEN. CSG is Program Coordinator at the UCSF Global Health Group and provides assistance to the APMEN Joint-Secretariat. The Global Health Group provides support to eliminating countries, such as Sri Lanka, and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Global Health Group also received funding from ExxonMobil during the period of this study. APMEN is funded through a grant from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). JGK is a professor of health policy at UCSF. This case study is a component of a collaboration between the UCSF Global Health Group and the WHO Global Malaria Programme to document country experience with malaria elimination.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RRA GNLG CSG JGK RGAF. Performed the experiments: RRA GNLG CSG JGK RGAF. Analyzed the data: CSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRA GNLG CSG JGK RGAF. Wrote the paper: RRA GNLG CSG JGK RGAF. Developed the malaria costing tool: JGK.