About the Authors

Effy Vayena

vayena@ethik.uzh.ch

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Marcel Salathé

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lawrence C. Madoff

Affiliation ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases), International Society for Infectious Diseases and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

John S. Brownstein

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Marcel Salathé is an Associated Editor for PLOS Computational Biology.