Acknowledgements

This resource was produced by the Health Inequality Monitoring team in the Department of Data and Analytics, Division of Data, Analytics and Delivery for Impact, at the World Health Organization (WHO). Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor (Lead, Health Equity Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO) coordinated the overall development and conceptualization of the book together with Nicole Bergen (Consultant on Health Equity Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO), who was the lead writer. Katherine Kirkby, Anne Schlotheuber and Daniel Antiporta (Technical Officers, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO) and Devaki Nambiar (Consultant on Health Equity Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO) contributed to drafting and reviewing chapters and preparing examples. Adrien Allorant, Nicole Johns and Carrie Lyons (Consultants on Health Equity Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO) and Christine Autenrieth and Arlene Quiambao (Technical Officers, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO) reviewed the book contents.

This resource benefited from the contributions of an external expert review group, which helped to refine the objectives, purpose and contents of the book, and provided inputs into and/or reviewed its drafts. This group consisted of (in alphabetical order): Yukiko Asada (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States of America), Aluisio JD Barros (International Center for Equity in Health, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil), Shakirah Binti Md Sharif (Institute for Health Systems Research, National Institutes of Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Shah Alam, Malaysia), Paula Braveman (San Francisco School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America), Jennifer Ellis (Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York, United States of America), Peter Goldblatt (Institute of Health Equity, University College London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Nicolas de Guzman Chorny (Health Equity Policy Directorate, Equity Analysis and Policy Research Team, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada), Sam Harper (McGill University, Montréal, Canada), Kristy T Hayes (United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America), Dan Hogan (Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland), Julia Mazza (Health Equity Policy Directorate, Equity Analysis and Policy Research Team, Public Health Agency of Canada, Montréal, Canada), Owen O’Donnell (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)), Ola Rosling (Gapminder.org, Stockholm, Sweden), Amirhossein Takian (Department of Global Health and Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran), Gemu Tiru (Health System Innovation and Improvement, Ministry of Health Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), Vivian Welch (Campbell Collaboration, Philadelphia, United States of America), Thea Willis (Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland).

WHO gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the following individuals, who provided valuable feedback on chapter drafts (in alphabetical order): Eliza Aspen (Amnesty International, New York, United States of America), Ahad Bakhtyari (Health Equity Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran), Ties Boerma (Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada), Leonardo Ferreira (International Center for Equity in Health, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil), John W Jackson (Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America), Mary Mahy (Data for Impact, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland), Ahmed Mohamed Amin Mandil (Department of Epidemiology, High Institute of Public Health, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt), Rocco Panciera (Unit for Digital Health and Information Systems, United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, United States of America).

Special thanks to Theadora Swift Koller (Senior Technical Lead/Unit Head, Health Equity, Department for Gender, Equity, Diversity and Rights for Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland), who provided guidance at various stages of the book development and reviewed several chapters.

The following WHO staff members and consultants contributed to the development of the book contents, including reviewing chapter drafts and/or providing inputs (in alphabetical order): Keyrellous Adib (Data, Evidence and Digital Health Unit, Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark), Luis Hernando Aguilar Ramirez (Department of Health Emergency Interventions, Geneva, Switzerland), Shada AlSalamah (Department of Digital Health and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland), Eman Abdelkreem Aly (Department of Science, Information and Dissemination, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt), Erica Barbazza (Special Programme on Primary Health Care, Geneva, Switzerland), Saverio Bellizzi (Department of Health and Migration, Geneva, Switzerland), Julia Berenson (Department of Social Determinants of Health, Geneva, Switzerland), Melanie Bertram (Department of Delivery for Impact, Geneva, Switzerland), Christine Brown (WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Venice, Italy), Craig Burgess (Data Coordination, Governance and Partnerships, Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Bochen Cao (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Hong Anh Chu (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Anna Coates (Department for Gender, Equity, Diversity and Rights for Health, Geneva, Switzerland), Theresa Diaz (Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, Geneva, Switzerland), Benson Droti (Universal Health Coverage Life Course Cluster, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo), Isabel C Espinosa (Healthy Populations and Environment, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines), Gabriela Flores Pentzke Saint-Germain (Department of Health Financing and Economics, Geneva, Switzerland), Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev (Department of Health Financing and Economics, Geneva, Switzerland), Jan Grevendonk (Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, Geneva, Switzerland), Rifat Hossain (Department of Health and Migration, Geneva, Switzerland), Humphrey Karamagi (WHO Representative to South Sudan, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Juba, South Sudan), Faraz Khalid (Special Programme on Primary Health Care, Geneva, Switzerland), Rouselle F Lavado (Department of Health Financing and Economics, Geneva, Switzerland), Doris Ma Fat (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Sophie Maes (Department of Health Emergency Interventions, Geneva, Switzerland), Oscar J Mujica (Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, United States of America), Khawla Nasser Aldeen (Department of Health and Migration, Geneva, Switzerland), David Novillo Ortiz (Data, Evidence and Digital Health Unit, Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark), Pauliina Nykanen-Rettaroli (Department for Gender, Equity, Diversity and Rights for Health, Geneva, Switzerland), Miriam Orcutt (Department of Health and Migration, Geneva, Switzerland), Sameer Pujari (Department of Digital Health and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland), Arash Rashidian (Department of Science, Information and Dissemination, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt), Katherine Rouleau (Special Programme on Primary Health Care, Geneva, Switzerland), Jean-François Saint-Pierre (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Ravi Shankar Santhana Gopala Krishnan (GIS Centre for Health, Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Santino Severoni (Department of Health and Migration, Geneva, Switzerland), Sudhvir Singh (Department of Social Determinants of Health, Geneva, Switzerland), Nicole Valentine (Department of Social Determinants of Health, Geneva, Switzerland), Wendy Venter (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Haidong Wang (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland), Diana Zandi (Department of Integrated Health Services, Geneva, Switzerland), Luhua Zhao (Department of Data and Analytics, Geneva, Switzerland).

Funding for the project was provided in part by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Financial support from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative is also acknowledged.

This eBook was produced by (in alphabetical order): Adrien Allorant (Consultant, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO), Katherine Kirkby (Technical Officer, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO), Arlene Quiambao (Technical Officer, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO), Martina Otavová (Consultant, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO) and Doohee You (Consultant, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO).