About the Authors

Joel O. Wertheim

jwertheim@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Current address: Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Lisa A. Forgione

Affiliation New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, United States of America

Sanjay R. Mehta

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Ben Murrell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Sharmila Shah

Affiliation New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, United States of America

Davey M. Smith

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Healthcare System San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Konrad Scheffler

Current address: Illumina, Inc. San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Lucia V. Torian

Affiliation New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JOW is a paid consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JOW LVT. Data curation: LAF SS. Formal analysis: JOW. Funding acquisition: JOW SKLP DMS. Methodology: JOW SLKP SRM DMS KS LVT. Software: SLKP BM. Writing – original draft: JOW. Writing – review & editing: JOW SLKP SRM BM DMS KS LVT.