About the Authors

Nick W. Ruktanonchai

nrukt00@gmail.com

Affiliations WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Patrick DeLeenheer

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Andrew J. Tatem

Affiliations WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Victor A. Alegana

Affiliations WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

T. Trevor Caughlin

Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg

Affiliations WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Christopher Lourenço

Affiliations WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Corrine W. Ruktanonchai

Affiliations WorldPop Project, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

David L. Smith

Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Sanaria Institute for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Spatial Epidemiology and Evolution Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NWR PD AJT DLS. Performed the experiments: NWR PD DLS. Analyzed the data: NWR PD TTC VAA EzES DLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJT VAA. Wrote the paper: NWR PD AJT TTC CL CWR DLS.