About the Authors

Nicolas A. Menzies

nmenzies@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliations Center for Health Decision Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ted Cohen

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hsien-Ho Lin

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Megan Murray

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joshua A. Salomon

Affiliations Center for Health Decision Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

JAS and MM are members of the PLOS Medicine editorial board. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: NAM. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: NAM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TC HHL MM JAS. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: NAM TC HHL MM JAS. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: NAM TC HHL MM JAS. Conceived and designed the study: NAM TC MM JAS. Contributed to model design and parameterization: NAM TC HHL MM JAS.