About the Authors

Marcia C. Castro

mcastro@hsph.harvard.edu (MCC); bhsinger@epi.ufl.edu (BHS)

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christinah Chiyaka

Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Burton H. Singer

mcastro@hsph.harvard.edu (MCC); bhsinger@epi.ufl.edu (BHS)

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCC BHS. Performed the experiments: MCC BHS MMG. Analyzed the data: MCC BHS MMG CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCC BHS MMG CC. Wrote the paper: MCC BHS MMG. Designed the software used in analysis: MMG.