Joseph S. Lombardo, MS, is Program Manager for Bio Information Systems in the National Security Technology Department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is the Director of the JHU/APL Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics.

David L. Buckeridge, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor and a Canadian Research Chair in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University. His research interests include public health informatics and surveillance systems, outbreak simulation, and the influence of surveillance information on decision-making in public health.