About the Authors

Jimmy Boon Som Ong

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Mark I-Cheng Chen

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

stacar@nus.edu.sg

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Huey Chyi Lee

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Vernon J. Lee

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

Affiliation National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Singapore, Singapore

Paul Ananth Tambyah

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Lee Gan Goh

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.