About the Authors

Mahnaz Alavinejad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Canada

Bruce Mellado

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ BM, AA, JO, JW and JDK contributed equally and also share last authorship to this work.

Affiliations Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), School of Physics, Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa

Ali Asgary

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ BM, AA, JO, JW and JDK contributed equally and also share last authorship to this work.

Affiliation Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), The Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Program, York University, Toronto, Canada

Mduduzi Mbada

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Head of Policy at Gauteng Office of the Premier, Johannesburg, South Africa

Thuso Mathaha

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Benjamin Lieberman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Finn Stevenson

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nidhi Tripathi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Abhaya Kumar Swain

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

James Orbinski

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ BM, AA, JO, JW and JDK contributed equally and also share last authorship to this work.

Affiliation Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University, Toronto, Canada

Jianhong Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ BM, AA, JO, JW and JDK contributed equally and also share last authorship to this work.

Affiliation Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Canada

Jude Dzevela Kong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jdkong@york.ca

‡ BM, AA, JO, JW and JDK contributed equally and also share last authorship to this work.

Affiliation Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC), Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.