Application of Phylodynamic Tools to Inform the Public Health Response to COVID-19: Qualitative Analysis of Expert Opinions

Shannan N Rich   ^{1, 2} , MSc, PhD ;   Veronica Richards   ^{1, 2} , MPH, PhD ;   Carla Mavian   ³ , MSc, PhD ;   Brittany Rife Magalis   ³ , PhD ;   Nathan Grubaugh   ⁴ , MSc, PhD ;   Sonja A Rasmussen   ^{1, 2, 5} , MSc, MD ;   Simon Dellicour   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Bram Vrancken   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Christine Carrington   ⁸ , PhD ;   Rebecca Fisk-Hoffman   ^{1, 2} , MPH ;   Demi Danso-Odei   ⁹ , MPH ;   Daniel Chacreton   ¹⁰ , MPH ;   Jerne Shapiro   ^{1, 2, 9} , MPH ;   Marie Nancy Seraphin   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Crystal Hepp   ^{12, 13, 14} , PhD ;   Allison Black   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Ann Dennis   ¹⁶ , MD ;   Nídia Sequeira Trovão   ¹⁷ , MSc, PhD ;   Anne-Mieke Vandamme   ^{18, 19} , PhD ;   Angela Rasmussen   ²⁰ , PhD ;   Michael Lauzardo   ¹¹ , MD, MSc ;   Natalie Dean   ^{21, 22} , PhD ;   Marco Salemi   ³ , PhD ;   Mattia Prosperi   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

² Department of Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

³ Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

⁴ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

⁶ Spatial Epidemiology Lab, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

⁷ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Bruxelles, Belgium

⁸ Department of Preclinical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

⁹ Florida Department of Health in Alachua County, Gainesville, FL, United States

¹⁰ Division of Disease Control and Health Protection, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, United States

¹¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

¹² Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

¹³ School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

¹⁴ Pathogen and Microbiome Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

¹⁵ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Redwood City, CA, United States

¹⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

¹⁷ Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

¹⁸ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

¹⁹ Center for Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

²⁰ Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

²¹ Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

²² Department of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States