Article History
Received: 4 February 2018
Accepted: 25 December 2018
First Online: 4 January 2019
Authors’ information
: SEM is a historical demographer, PhD, and a research professor. For 23 years, SEM has studied the demography of epidemic diseases with a focus on the 1918 influenza pandemic. The topic is timely with the centenary falling in 2018. CSE is a senior researcher with a PhD in Science and Technology Studies, and a research focus on the ethics and governance of new and emerging technologies. More recently, she has collaborated in research on public health and research policy responses to the Zika virus outbreak. OR has a PhD in Economics, and has published extensively in the field of Experimental Economics including a meta-analysis in a review of the epidemiological literature on the increased crash risks associated with cannabis.
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