About the Authors

Nargesalsadat Dorratoltaj

Affiliation Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Achla Marathe

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Bryan L. Lewis

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Samarth Swarup

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Stephen G. Eubank

Affiliations Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Kaja M. Abbas

kaja.abbas@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KMA AM. Data curation: ND. Formal analysis: ND. Funding acquisition: AM KMA. Investigation: ND AM BLL SS SGE KMA. Methodology: ND AM BLL SS SGE KMA. Project administration: AM KMA. Resources: ND AM BLL SS SGE KMA. Software: ND. Supervision: KMA. Validation: ND. Visualization: ND. Writing – original draft: ND KMA. Writing – review & editing: ND AM BLL SS SGE KMA.