About the Authors

Robert Moss

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Roslyn I. Hickson

Affiliation IBM Research - Australia, Melbourne, Australia

Jodie McVernon

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

James M. McCaw

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Krishna Hort

Affiliation Nossal Institute, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Jim Black

Affiliation Nossal Institute, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

John R. Madden

Affiliation Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Nhi H. Tran

Affiliation Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Emma S. McBryde

Affiliations Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Nicholas Geard

nicholas.geard@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

RIH is employed by IBM Research - Australia (http://www.research.ibm.com/).

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RM RIH JM JMM KH JB JRM NHT ESM NG. Funding acquisition: RIH JM JMM KH JB JRM ESM NG. Investigation: RM RIH ESM NG. Methodology: RM RIH JM JMM ESM NG. Project administration: ESM NG. Resources: KH JB. Software: RM. Supervision: ESM NG. Validation: RM RIH JM JMM KH JB NG. Visualization: RM NG. Writing – original draft: RM NG. Writing – review & editing: RM RIH JM JMM KH JB JRM NHT ESM NG.