We thank Dr. Bruce Aylward for providing the video recorded quotes about the impacts of our work, which we used in the Edelman Award presentations, and Drs. Aylward, Carol Pandak, and Walter Orenstein for providing stakeholder perspectives in discussions with the Edelman judges. We thank Katerina Alves, Sona Bari, Thomas Bell, Christopher Black, Ivana Boko, Lee Bookman, Louis Boviero, James Cosgrove, Christine Fares, Christine Feig, Jean-Marc Glinz, Brian Hirten, Alan Janssen, Todd Jordan, Sarah Poser, Oliver Rosenbauer, Bryon Skinner, and Jeanette St. Pierre for their help with preparing the audiovisual materials for our presentation, and the GPEI partners for the images used. We thank Sid Hess, Pelin Pekgun, Carrie Beam, and all of the Edelman judges and editors for providing comments. The first two authors acknowledge support for this article from CDC Cooperative Agreement [U66 IP000169]. The collaborative work described in this piece includes research performed with financial support for Kid Risk, Inc. and research in the form of grants and contracts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [Grants U50/CCU300860, U01 IP000029, NVPO N37 (FY2005) 200-2010-M-33379, 200-2010-M-33679, 200-2010-M-35172, and U66 IP000169]; the World Health Organization (WHO) [APW200179134]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [4533-17492, 4533-18487, 4533-21031, 4533-23446]; and unrestricted gifts to the Harvard Kids Risk Project. Finally, we thank collaborators from Kid Risk, Inc., including Dominika Kalkowska, Jong-Hoon Kim, and Kasper Kisjes; from CDC, including James Alexander, Lorraine Alexander, Larry Anderson, Gregory Armstrong, Albert Barskey, Carla Boudreau, Brenton Burkholder, Cara Burns, Victor Cáceres, Jason Cecil, Susan Chu, Paul Chenoweth, Kathleen Gallagher, Howard Gary, John Glasser, Steve Hadler, Karen Hennessey, Hamid Jafari, Julie Jenks, Denise Johnson, Bob Keegan, Olen Kew, Nino Khetsuriani, Robb Linkins, Benjamin Lopman, Naile Malakmadze, Rebecca Martin, Eric Mast, Steve McLaughlin, Steve Oberste, Patrick O’Connor, Becky Prevots, Hardeep Sandhu, Nalinee Sangrujee, Anne Schuchat, Jean Smith, Philip Smith, Peter Strebel, Linda Venczel, Gregory Wallace, Margie Watkins, and Bruce Weniger; and from the WHO, including (in addition to those mentioned previously) Fred Caillette, Claire Chauvin, Philippe Duclos, Esther de Gourville, Hans Everts, Marta Gacic-Dobo, Tracey Goodman, Ulla Griffiths, David Heymann, Scott Lambert, Asta Lim, Jennifer Linkins, Patrick Lydon, Chris Maher, Linda Muller, Roland Sutter, Rudi Tangermann, Chris Wolff, and David Wood. We also thank the Global Polio Laboratory Network, Harrie van der Avoort, Francois Bompart, Anthony Burton, Konstantin Chumakov, Laurent Coudeville, Walter Dowdle, Paul Fine, Michael Galway, Shanelle Hall, Neal Halsey, Tapani Hovi, Kun Hu, Jacob John, Samuel Katz, Tracy Lieu, Marc Lipsitch, Anton van Loon, Apoorva Mallya, Elizabeth Miller, Phil Minor, John Modlin, Van Hung Nguyen, Peter Patriarca, Christina Pedreira, Stanley Plotkin, Hazhir Rahmandad, Robert Scott, John Sever, Thomas Sorensen, John Sterman, Robert Weibel, Jay Wenger, and Peter Wright.
