About the Authors

Thomas Rawson

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

t.rawson@imperial.ac.uk

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

Wes Hinsley

Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Raphael Sonabend

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

Elizaveta Semenova

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Anne Cori

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Neil M Ferguson

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology, Imperial College London, Public Health England, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AC has received payment from Pfizer for teaching of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. All other authors declare no competing interests.