About the Authors

Thomas J. Hladish

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tjhladish@gmail.com

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

Alexander N. Pillai

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Carl A. B. Pearson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, South African DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Kok Ben Toh

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

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Institute of Global Health and Department of Preventive Medicine Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrea C. Tamayo

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Arlin Stoltzfus

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

Affiliation Office of Data and Informatics, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Ira M. Longini

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

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.