About the Authors

James W. Rudge

james.rudge@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand

Piya Hanvoravongchai

Affiliation Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand

Ralf Krumkamp

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

Irwin Chavez

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Wiku Adisasmito

Affiliation Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indeonesia

Pham Ngoc Chau

Affiliation Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Bounlay Phommasak

Affiliation National Emerging Infectious Diseases Coordination Office, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Weerasak Putthasri

Affiliation International Health Policy Programme-Thailand, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Chin-Shui Shih

Affiliation Taiwan Centre for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

Mart Stein

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Aura Timen

Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Sok Touch

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Ralf Reintjes

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

Richard Coker

Affiliation Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand

on behalf of the AsiaFluCap Project Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC. Analyzed the data: JWR PH IC. Wrote the paper: JWR. Coordinated data collection across countries: PH RC. Led data collection within countries: WA PNC BP WP CS-S ST. Led model development: RK. Contributed to model development: JWR MS AT. Coded the model: JWR. Conducted literature reviews for model parameter values: MS AT. Commented on drafts of the manuscript: RC PH RK WA MS AT RR.