About the Author
Abbie Tingstad, Shira Fischer, Erika Bloom and Mary Lee
Abbie Tingstad is a senior physical scientist and associate director of the Engineering and Applied Sciences Department, Shira Fischer is a physician policy researcher, Erika Bloom is a behavioral/social scientist, and Mary Lee is a mathematician and inaugural fellow for the Center for Global Risk and Security at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. They wrote this for InsideSources.com.