About the Authors
- Jessica Hartman Jacobs
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* E-mail: jhartman44@gmail.com
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Brett Nicholas Archer
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Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Michael G. Baker
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
- Benjamin J. Cowling
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Affiliation School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- Richard T. Heffernan
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Affiliation Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Geoff Mercer
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Affiliation National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Osvaldo Uez
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Affiliation National Institute of Epidemiology, ANLIS, Ministry of Public Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Wanna Hanshaoworakul
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Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Tiwanond, Nonthaburi, Thailand
- Cécile Viboud
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Affiliation Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Joel Schwartz
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Marc Lipsitch
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Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
BJC has received research funding from MedImmune Inc. and consults for Crucell MV. ML declares consulting income/honoraria from Pfizer, Novartis, Avian/Pandemic Flu Registry (Outcome Sciences, supported by Roche), and AIR Worldwide. The following co-authors are editors: Benjamin J Cowling and Cecile Viboud. This does not alter the authors‘ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JHJ ETT ML. Analyzed the data: JHJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BNA MGB BJC RTH GM OU WH. Wrote the paper: JHJ BNA MGB BJC RTH GM OU WH CV JS ETT ML.