About the Authors
- Susan P. Sparkes
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: sps187@mail.harvard.edu
Current address: Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Rifat Atun
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Till Bӓrnighausen
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Competing Interests
Rifat Atun has acted as an adviser and a consultant to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey, including in the Health Transformation Program, and has undertaken consulting assignments in Turkey for the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey, WHO, and the World Bank. Susan Sparkes has acted as a consultant to the World Bank, and in that capacity worked with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey to draft a report on the political economy of the Health Transformation Program. The researchers did not receive funding for this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.