About the Authors

Cameron Zachreson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cameron.zachreson@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Julian Savulescu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Biomedical Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Freya M. Shearer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Disease Dynamics Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Michael J. Plank

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Simon Coghlan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Joel C. Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

Kylie E. C. Ainslie

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Nicholas Geard

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CZ, NG, JM, and FMS provided modelling to support the Australian Government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. MJP provided modelling to support the New Zealand Government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. KECA provided modelling to support the Dutch Government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. JS is a Bioethics Committee consultant for Bayer. JS, through his involvement with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, received funding from the Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support (OIS) Program.