About the Authors

Xavier Bosch-Capblanch

x.bosch@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

John N. Lavis

Affiliation McMaster Health Forum, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Simon Lewin

Affiliation Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, and Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Rifat Atun

Affiliation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

John-Arne Røttingen

Affiliations Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, Oslo, Norway, and Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Dröschel

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Lise Beck

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Edgardo Abalos

Affiliation Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales, Rosario, Argentina

Fadi El-Jardali

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, and McMaster Health Forum, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lucy Gilson

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Cape Town and Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Sandy Oliver

Affiliation EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom

Kaspar Wyss

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Peter Tugwell

Affiliation Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Regina Kulier

Affiliation Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Tikki Pang

Affiliation Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Andy Haines

Affiliation Departments of Social and Environmental Health Research and of Nutrition and Public Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services received funds from the WHO for the contributions of DD, LB, SL, and XBC to developing a Handbook to produce health systems guidance, and some of this work is reported in this article. All other authors declare no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XBC. Performed the experiments: XBC. Analyzed the data: XBC. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: XBC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: XBC JL SL RA JAR DD LB AB FEJ LG SO KW PT RK TP AH. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: XBC JL SL RA JAR DD LB AB FEJ LG SO KW PT RK TP AH. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: XBC JL SL RA JAR DD LB AB FEJ LG SO KW PT RK TP AH.