About the Authors

Rosarin Sruamsiri

r.sruamsiri@gmail.com

Affiliations Center of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dennis Ross-Degnan

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christine Y. Lu

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk

Affiliations Center of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America

Anita K. Wagner

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

RS had financial support from the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) through the Royal Golden Jubilee PhD program; RS and NC were supported by grants from Janssen Asia Pacific for coverage decision study in Asia-pacific; AKW, CL and DRD were supported by a grant from the Novartis Pharma for conducting and developing teaching programs; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. The authors have declared their conflict of interests and funding sources.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS AKW NC CYL DRD. Performed the experiments: RS AKW. Analyzed the data: RS AKW CYL DRD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS NC. Wrote the paper: RS AKW NC CYL DRD. Participated in design of the study, review literature and policy documents, interview selected stakeholders and perform data analysis: RS. Provided comment in study design and identified relevant local data sources and key stakeholders in Thai health system: NC. Participated in design of study, create study's framework, search published literature and perform data analysis: AKW DRD CYL. Read and approved the final manuscript: RS DRD CYL NC AKW. Contributed to the interpretation of data and results, drafting the manuscript, critically reviewing the manuscript for important intellectual content and has approved the final version: RS DRD CYL NC AKW.