1. 1Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
2. 2American Society of Hematology, Washington, DC
3. 3Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research and Training, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
4. 4Department of Paediatrics, John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Monrovia, Liberia
5. 5Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
6. 6Department of Pediatrics, Muhimbili National Hospital and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
7. 7Central Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
8. 8Department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospitals - Children's Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
9. 9Department of Pediatrics, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kisumu, Kenya
10. 10Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
11. 11Guy’s and St Thomas’s Private Healthcare, London, United Kingdom
12. 12Division of Hematology, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Global Health Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
13. 13Division of Haematology and Oncology, SickKids, Toronto, ON, Canada
14. 14Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Catholic University of Health & Allied Science and Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania
15. 15Department of Haematology, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria
16. 16Department of Statistics, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
17. 17Willows Consulting, Seattle, WA
18. 18Division of Hematology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
19. 19Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA
20. 20Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
21. 21Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA