About the Authors

Andrew C. Hayward

a.hayward@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, England

Competing Interests

I am lead author and Chief investigator of one of the disputed papers. I have served on the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation Influenza subgroup in England. I serve on the Department of Health New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group. I am a member of a National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guideline development groups reviewing the evidence on interventions to increase uptake of influenza vaccination in health care workers. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ACH. Data curation: ACH. Formal analysis: ACH. Funding acquisition: ACH. Investigation: ACH. Methodology: ACH. Project administration: ACH. Writing – original draft: ACH. Writing – review & editing: ACH.