About the Authors

Alethea W. McCormick

Contributed equally to this work with: Alethea W. McCormick, Nadia N. Abuelezam, Marc Lipsitch, George R. Seage III

amccormi@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nadia N. Abuelezam

Contributed equally to this work with: Alethea W. McCormick, Nadia N. Abuelezam, Marc Lipsitch, George R. Seage III

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Erin R. Rhode

Affiliation Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Taige Hou

Affiliation Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rochelle P. Walensky

Affiliations Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pamela P. Pei

Affiliation Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica E. Becker

Affiliation Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Madeline A. DiLorenzo

Affiliation Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elena Losina

Affiliations Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kenneth A. Freedberg

Affiliations Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease and the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc Lipsitch

Contributed equally to this work with: Alethea W. McCormick, Nadia N. Abuelezam, Marc Lipsitch, George R. Seage III

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George R. Seage III

Contributed equally to this work with: Alethea W. McCormick, Nadia N. Abuelezam, Marc Lipsitch, George R. Seage III

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.