About the Authors

Piroska Östlin

pio@euro.who.int

Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ted Schrecker

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Ritu Sadana

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Josiane Bonnefoy

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Lucy Gilson

Affiliation University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Clyde Hertzman

Affiliation Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Michael P. Kelly

Affiliation Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London, United Kingdom

Tord Kjellstrom

Affiliation National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Ronald Labonté

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine and Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Olle Lundberg

Affiliation Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm, and Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

Carles Muntaner

Affiliation Social Equity and Health Section, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Jennie Popay

Affiliation Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Gita Sen

Affiliation Indian Institute of Management, Centre for Public Policy, Bangalore, India

Ziba Vaghri

Affiliation Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: PO TS RS JB LG CH MPK TK RL OL CM JP GS ZV. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PO TS RS JB LG CH MPK TK RL OL CM JP GS ZV. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: PO TS RS JB LG CH MPK TK RL OL CM JP GS ZV. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: PO TS RS JB LG CH MPK TK RL OL CM JP GS ZV.