About the Authors

Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

jeremygf@stanford.edu

Affiliations Centers for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Program in Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc Lipsitch

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ajay Mahal

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alan M. Zaslavsky

Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joshua A. Salomon

Affiliations Program in Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDGF ML AMZ JAS. Performed the experiments: JDGF. Analyzed the data: JDGF ML AM AMZ JAS. Wrote the paper: JDGF JAS. Contributed to revision of the manuscript: ML AM AMZ.