About the Authors

Benson Ogunjimi

benson.ogunjimi@ua.ac.be

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Pierre Van Damme

Affiliation Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Philippe Beutels

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

BO and PB report no conflicts of interest. PVD acts as (principal) investigator for vaccine trials (including herpes zoster vaccine trials) conducted on behalf of the University of Antwerp, for which the University obtains research grants from vaccine manufacturers. PVD receives no personal remuneration for this work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BO PVD PB. Performed the experiments: BO PVD PB. Analyzed the data: BO PVD PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BO PVD PB. Wrote the paper: BO PVD PB.