About the Authors

Max Ernst Bender

Max.Bender@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Europe e.V. (UAEM), Berlin, Germany

Suzanne Edwards

Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany

Peter von Philipsborn

Affiliations Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Europe e.V. (UAEM), Berlin, Germany, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Fridolin Steinbeis

Affiliations Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Europe e.V. (UAEM), Berlin, Germany, Faculty of Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Keil

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Peter Tinnemann

Affiliation Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEB SE PT. Analyzed the data: MEB PT. Wrote the paper: MEB SE PT. Reviewed and contributed significantly to the paper: PvP FS TK.