About the Authors

Peter J. Hotez

mtmpjh@gwumc.edu (PJH); aultstev@paho.org (SKA)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Carlos Franco-Paredes

Affiliations Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gómez, México, D.F., México, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Steven K. Ault

mtmpjh@gwumc.edu (PJH); aultstev@paho.org (SKA)

Affiliation Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Washington, D.C., United States of America

Mirta Roses Periago

Affiliation Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

PJH is a cofounder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Disease Control and President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute. PJH and MEB are inventors on international patents for hookworm vaccines and a hookworm-schistosomiasis vaccine. PJH is also Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. MRP and SKA are the Director and Regional Advisor in Communicable Diseases (Parasitic Diseases/Neglected Diseases) of PAHO/WHO, respectively, and declare no conflict of interests. The contents of this paper are the sole responsibility of the authors and should not be construed as speaking for the policies of PAHO/WHO nor for their governing councils and assemblies.