About the Authors

Vivek Charu

vcharu@gmail.com

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Scott Zeger

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Julia Gog

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ottar N. Bjørnstad

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephen Kissler

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lone Simonsen

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bryan T. Grenfell

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Cécile Viboud

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC SZ JG LS BTG CV. Performed the experiments: VC CV. Analyzed the data: VC SK CV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VC CV. Wrote the paper: VC SZ JG ONB SK LS BTG CV.