About the Authors

Jailos Lubinda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

lubinda-j@ulster.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, United Kingdom, School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University, Londonderry, United Kingdom

Yaxin Bi

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computing, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom

Busiku Hamainza

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Ministry of Health, National Malaria Elimination Centre, Lusaka, Zambia

Ubydul Haque

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Centre, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Adrian J. Moore

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.