About the Authors

Deborah J. Schofield

Affiliations NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia

Michelle Cunich

michelle.cunich@ctc.usyd.edu.au

Affiliation NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia

Rupendra N. Shrestha

Affiliation NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia

Emily J. Callander

Affiliation NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Australia

Megan E. Passey

Affiliation University Centre for Rural Health – North Coast, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia

Simon J. Kelly

Affiliation National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, Australia

Robert Tanton

Affiliation National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra, Australia

Lennert Veerman

Affiliation School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors declare that the development of the microsimulation model used in this research, Health&WealthMOD2030, was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (Grant number LP100100158), with Pfizer Australia as the commercial partner to the grant. All authors are independent from the funding source. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS MC RS EC MP SK RT LV. Performed the experiments: RS SK RT LV. Analyzed the data: MC EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS MC RS RT SK MP LV. Wrote the paper: MC EC. Led the Health&WealthMOD2030 project: DS. Developed Health&WealthMOD2030: RS. Developed APPSIM: SK. Worked on the health trend data: LV. Worked on weighting the data: RT. Provided expert knowledge on diabetes and diabetes care: MP and LV. Contributed to manuscript editing: DS MC RS EC MP SK RT LV.