About the Authors

Stephan Karl

karl@wehi.edu.au

Affiliations Population-Based Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Vector-borne Diseases Unit, Papua New Guinea Insititute of Medical Research, Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Michael T. White

Affiliations Population-Based Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis & Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

George J. Milne

Affiliation School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

David Gurarie

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Simon I. Hay

Affiliations Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alyssa E. Barry

Affiliations Population-Based Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Ingrid Felger

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ivo Mueller

Affiliations Population-Based Biology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Malaria: Parasites and Hosts Unit, Department of Parasites & Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SK MTW SIH IF AB IM. Data curation: SK IF AB MTW. Formal analysis: SK MTW. Funding acquisition: SK MTW IM AB IF. Investigation: SK MTW. Methodology: SK MTW GJM DG. Project administration: SK MTW IF AB IM. Resources: SK IM AB IF. Software: SK GJM DG. Supervision: SK MTW SIH IF AB IM. Validation: SK MTW DG IM. Visualization: SK MTW. Writing – original draft: SK MTW IF SIH AB IM. Writing – review & editing: SK MTW DG GJM SIH IF AB IM.