About the Authors

Tobias Brett

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tsbrett@uga.edu

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Marco Ajelli

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Quan-Hui Liu

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Mary G. Krauland

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Department of Health Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John J. Grefenstette

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh, Department of Health Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Willem G. van Panhuis

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Pittsburgh, Department of Epidemiology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alessandro Vespignani

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy

John M. Drake

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Pejman Rohani

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JJG is a principal in Epistemix Inc., which has been licensed by the University of Pittsburgh to develop commercial applications of the FRED modeling technology mentioned in this study.