About the Authors
- S. Sohail Ahmed
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* E-mail: sohail.q.ahmed@gsk.com
Current address: Global Clinical Sciences, GSK, Siena, Italy
Affiliation Global Clinical Sciences, Novartis Vaccines Srl, Siena, Italy
- Ernesto Oviedo-Orta
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Current address: Global Clinical Sciences, GSK, Siena, Italy
Affiliation Global Clinical Sciences, Novartis Vaccines Srl, Siena, Italy
- Sumiko R. Mekaru
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Affiliation Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Computational Epidemiology Group, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Clark C. Freifeld
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Affiliation Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Computational Epidemiology Group, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gervais Tougas
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Affiliation Drug Safety and Epidemiology, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
- John S. Brownstein
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Affiliations Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Computational Epidemiology Group, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
Drs. Brownstein and Freifeld report being co-creators of the HealthMap system and hold an equity stake in, and are consultants to Epidemico, a spinoff company of Boston Children’s Hospital that handles licensing of HealthMap data. Dr. Mekaru declares no conflicts of interest. Drs. Ahmed, Oviedo-Orta, and Tougas are employees of Novartis and hold stock in Novartis AG. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SSA JB. Performed the experiments: SSA SM. Analyzed the data: SSA EOO SM CF GT JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM CF JB. Wrote the paper: SSA EOO SM CF GT JB.