About the Authors
- Jimmy Boon Som Ong
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- Mark I-Cheng Chen
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Alex R. Cook
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* E-mail: stacar@nus.edu.sg
Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Huey Chyi Lee
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Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Vernon J. Lee
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Biodefence Centre, Ministry of Defence, Singapore, Singapore, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Raymond Tzer Pin Lin
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Affiliation National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore
- Paul Ananth Tambyah
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- Lee Gan Goh
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, College of Family Physicians, Singapore, Singapore
Competing Interests
PAT has received research support and honoraria from Baxter, Adamas, Merlion Pharma, and Novartis as well as travel support from Pfizer and Wyeth and sits on the boards of the Asia Pacific Advisory Committee on Influenza and the Asian Hygiene Council. VJL has received research support from GSK. The rest of the authors declare that they do not have any conflict of interests, financial or otherwise, in this study.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JO MIC ARC VJL LGG. Performed the experiments: JO MIC. Analyzed the data: ARC HCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARC HCL. Wrote the paper: JO MIC ARC HCL VJL RTPL PT LGG. Set up the surveillance network: ARC. Wrote the statistical software used to form predictions: ARC HCL. Wrote the software that automated the procedures: ARC JO. Contributed to writing the paper: ARC JO HCL. Set up the network: JO MC VL LGG. Managed the running of the project: JO. Devised the model used in predictions: ARC MC HCL. Provided medical and epidemiological insight, and contributed to writing the paper: MC VL LGG. Provided medical, epidemiological and national policy insights and contributed to writing the paper: RTPL PAT.