About the Authors

Sarah M. Bartsch

Affiliations Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Global Obesity Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Peter J. Hotez

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, and Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Lindsey Asti

Affiliations Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Global Obesity Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kristina M. Zapf

Affiliations Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Global Obesity Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Affiliations National School of Tropical Medicine, and Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America

David J. Diemert

Affiliations Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Bruce Y. Lee

brucelee@jhu.edu

Affiliations Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Global Obesity Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMB PJH KMZ MEB DJD BYL. Performed the experiments: SMB LA. Analyzed the data: SMB PJH LA BYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BYL. Wrote the paper: SMB PJH LA KMZ MEB DJD BYL. Model development: SMB LA BYL. Data collection: SMB PJH LA KMZ. Interpretation of results: SMB PJH LA MEB DJD BYL.