Mixing methods: How listening to researchers, healthcare workers, and community members can improve the design of studies testing medical innovations for Neglected Tropical Diseases

• Astrid C. Erber ,

  * E-mail: astrid.erber@meduniwien.ac.at

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5252-9676

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• Anthony Ablordey,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, GhanaGhana

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• Adamu Addissie,

  Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Evans K. Ahortor,

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, GhanaGhana, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

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• Doris Burtscher,

  Affiliation Vienna Evaluation Unit/Anthropology, Médecins Sans Frontières, Vienna, Austria

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• Esther M. Mukooza,

  Affiliation Department of Operational Research, Médecins Sans Frontières, Manzini, Eswatini,

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• Richard Creswell,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Ben Lambert,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Piero L. Olliaro

  Affiliation International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC), Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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