ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the sponsors of SEAN—the National Science Foundation—and of the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Special thanks go to members of the SEAN executive committee who dedicated time and thought to this project: Mary T. Bassett (co-chair), Harvard University; Robert M. Groves (co-chair), Georgetown University; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University; Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard University; Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Michael Hout, New York University; Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan; and Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington.

We extend gratitude to the staff of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, particularly Malvern T. Chiweshe and Chelsea Fowler, who contributed research, editing, and writing assistance. We thank Ron Warnick, who led the communication and dissemination of the project. Thanks, are also due to Elizabeth Tilton, who managed the administrative aspects of the project and assisted with report production. From the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, we thank Kirsten Sampson Snyder, who shepherded the report through the review process. We also thank Rona Briere, Allison Boman, and Danielle Nasenbeny for their skillful editing.

The National Academies values transparency and thorough disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest. The authors confirm that they have not received any external financial contributions, including both monetary and nonmonetary contributions, from sources outside the National Academies for this rapid expert consultation. The authors did not disclose any competing interests within the last 5 years that could directly affect, or be perceived to affect, the objectivity, integrity, and value of this rapid expert consultation as an unbiased source of information.

To supplement their own expertise, the authors received input from several external sources, whose willingness to share their perspectives and expertise was essential to this work. We thank Noel Brewer, University of North Carolina; Henna Budhwani, Florida State University; Timothy Callaghan, Boston University; Matt Motta, Boston University; Robert Schechter, California Department of Public Health; Xun Zhu, University of Kentucky; Brian Zikmund-Fisher, University of Michigan; and Richard Zimmerman, University of Pittsburgh.

We also thank the following individuals for their review of this rapid expert consultation: Gretchen Chapman, professor and department head, Department of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University; Archana Chatterjee, Dean, Chicago Medical School and Vice President for Medical Affairs, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science; Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the University’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, and Program Director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands; Meredith Li-Vollmer, Risk Communication Specialist, Public Health, Seattle & King County; and Monica Schoch-Spana, Senior scholar, Center for Health Security, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the information in this document, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this document was overseen by Alicia L. Carriquiry, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, and Robert A. Moffitt, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this rapid expert consultation was carried out in accordance with the standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the authors, and this document has been reviewed and approved for release by the National Academies.