About the Authors

John R. Giles

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

giles@jhu.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Derek A. T. Cummings

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology and the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Bryan T. Grenfell

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Andrew J. Tatem

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

CJE Metcalf

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Amy Wesolowski

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.