Protecting children in low-income and middle-income countries from COVID-19

• Heather J Zar,
• Trevor Duke,
• William Checkley,
• Samuel Akech,
• Mike English,
• Hamish R Graham,
• Adegoke G Falade,
• Peter P Moschovis,
• Norman Lufesi,
• Anneke C Hesseling,
• Tim Colbourn,
• Eric D McCollum,
• Salahuddin Ahmed,
• Mathuram Santosham,
• Tisungane Mvalo,
• Naor Bar-Zeev,
• Harish Nair,
• Madhu Gupta,
• Ambrose Agweyu,
• Steve Cunningham,
• Harry Campbell,
• Carina King,
• Kevin Baker,
• Mohammod Jobayer Chisti,
• Nicholas SS Fancourt,
• Amy S Ginsburg,
• Diane M Gray,
• Laura Hammitt,
• Shubhada Hooli,
• Abdul-Wahab BR Johnson,
• Miles A Kirby,
• Claudio F Lanata,
• Grant A Mackenzie,
• John P McCracken,
• Osawaru Oviawe,
• William S Pomat,
• James A Seddon,
• Lineo Keneuoe Thahane,
• Brian Wahl,
• Marieke Van der Zalm,
• Charl Verwey,
• Lay-Myint Yoshida,
• Stephen RC Howie

Affiliations

Heather J Zar

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Trevor Duke

Child Health, University of Papua New Guinea, Waigani, Papua New Guinea

William Checkley

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Samuel Akech

1 Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Mike English

1 Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Hamish R Graham

Melbourne Children`s Global Health, Murdoch Children`s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Adegoke G Falade

Department of Paediatrics, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Peter P Moschovis

Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Norman Lufesi

3 Acute Respiratory Illness Unit, Government of Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Anneke C Hesseling

Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Tim Colbourn

Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK

Eric D McCollum

Global Program in Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, Eudowood Division of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Salahuddin Ahmed

Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mathuram Santosham

7 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Tisungane Mvalo

Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Naor Bar-Zeev

International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Harish Nair

Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Madhu Gupta

Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Ambrose Agweyu

Epidemiology and Demography, KEMRI—Wellcome Trust Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Steve Cunningham

1 Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Harry Campbell

Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Carina King

Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Kevin Baker

6 Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom

Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

Nutrition Research Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nicholas SS Fancourt

18 Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Amy S Ginsburg

19 Clinical Trial Center, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Diane M Gray

22 Division Paediatric Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Laura Hammitt

7 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Shubhada Hooli

Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Abdul-Wahab BR Johnson

26 Pulmonology & Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Ilorin/University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria

Miles A Kirby

28 Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Claudio F Lanata

30 Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

Grant A Mackenzie

Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia

John P McCracken

36 Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Osawaru Oviawe

38 Department of Child Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria

William S Pomat

4 Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea

James A Seddon

Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Lineo Keneuoe Thahane

41 Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation – Lesotho, Maseru, Lesotho

Brian Wahl

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Marieke Van der Zalm

44 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Charl Verwey

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lay-Myint Yoshida

47 Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Stephen RC Howie

50 Department of Paediatrics: Child & Youth Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand