About the Authors

Brandon D. L. Marshall

brandon_marshall@brown.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Magdalena M. Paczkowski

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Lars Seemann

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Barbara Tempalski

Affiliation Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, New York, United States of America

Enrique R. Pouget

Affiliation Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, New York, United States of America

Sandro Galea

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Samuel R. Friedman

Affiliation Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDLM MMP BT ERP SG SRF. Performed the experiments: BDLM MMP LS. Analyzed the data: BDLM MMP BT ERP SG SRF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMP LS. Wrote the paper: BDLM. Reviewed the first draft of the manuscript and provided important intellectual content and approved the final version of the manuscript: BDLM MMP LS BT ERP SG SRF.