About the Authors

David J. Haw

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

Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Derek A. T. Cummings

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Justin Lessler

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Henrik Salje

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA3012, Paris, France, Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Jonathan M. Read

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Health Informatics Computing and Statistics, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Steven Riley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

s.riley@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.