Action to protect the independence and integrity of global health research

• David Sanders,
• Lu Gram,
• Benjamin Tsofa,
• Johanne Sundby,
• Tolib Mirzoev,
• Kristine Bærøe,
• Ole Frithjof Norheim,
• Ejemai Eboreime,
• Valéry Ridde,
• Kristine Husøy Onarheim,
• Emily Mendenhall,
• Vladimir S Gordeev,
• Tanya Doherty,
• Stephen Taylor,
• David Peters,
• Shariful Islam,
• Madhukar Pai,
• Elysée Nouvet,
• Francesca L Cavallaro,
• Shafiu Mohammed,
• Sassy Molyneux,
• Karl Blanchet,
• Janice E Graham,
• Kayvan Bozorgmehr,
• David McCoy,
• Joel Lexchin,
• Anna-Karin Hurtig,
• Asha George,
• Rachel Chapman,
• Loveday Penn-Kekana,
• Katerini T Storeng,
• Dina Balabanova,
• Veronique Filippi,
• Sidsel Roalkvam,
• Grace Akello,
• Melissa Parker,
• Jennifer Palmer,
• Ibukun Abejirinde,
• Babatope Adebiyi,
• Clara Affun-Adegbulu,
• Jhon Álvarez Ahlgren,
• Ayesha Ahmad,
• Sameh Al-Awlaqi,
• Zongo Aloys,
• Gianna Gayle Amul,
• Muhammad Asaduzzaman,
• Akeza Awealom Asgedom,
• Bouchra Assarag,
• Nicole Atchessi,
• Salla Atkins,
• Okikiolu Badejo,
• Bailah Molleh,
• Alessandra Bazzano,
• Dominique P Béhague,
• Uli Beisel,
• Loubna Belaid,
• Sarah Bernays,
• Shafi Bhuiyan,
• Olivia Biermann,
• Harriet Birungi,
• Astrid Blystad,
• Oriane Bodson,
• Emmanuel Bonnet,
• Shibaji Bose,
• Michelle Brear,
• Rochelle Burgess,
• Jens Byskov,
• Séverine Carillon,
• Sophie Chabeda,
• Clare Chandler,
• Francis F Chikuse,
• Juliana Iwu Chinwe,
• Beniamino Cislaghi,
• Svea Closser,
• Christopher J Colvin,
• Jenny Cresswell,
• Fabiana da Cunha Saddi,
• Judith Daire,
• Sarah Dalglish,
• Vincent de Brouwere,
• Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan,
• Thérèse Delvaux,
• Annabel Desgrées du Loû,
• Brahima A Diallo,
• Aïssa Diarra,
• Justin Dixon,
• Alexandre Dumont,
• Beth Engelbrecht,
• Susan Erikson,
• Adama Faye,
• Sara Fischer,
• Florence Fournet,
• Ashley M Fox,
• Joel Msafiri Francis,
• Lara Gautier,
• Lucy Gilson,
• Sarah Gimbel,
• Jeff Glenn,
• Unni Gopinathan,
• Christoph Gradmann,
• Giulia Greco,
• Karen Grepin,
• Anne Guichard,
• Pragya Tiwari Gupta,
• Viveka Guzman,
• Marte E S Haaland,
• Anna Häggblom,
• Amy Hagopian,
• Karin Hammarberg,
• Pascal Handschumacher,
• Katrina Hann,
• Marie Hasselberg,
• Natasha Howard,
• Sameera Hussain,
• Eleanor Hutchinson,
• Ezirim Idoteyin,
• Jennifer J Infanti,
• Rachel Irwin,
• Taufique Joarder,
• Preethi John,
• Ermel Johnson,
• Mira Johri,
• Judith Justice,
• Charles Kaboré,
• Kadidiatou Kadio,
• Matthieu Kamwa,
• Ann H Kelly,
• Nora Kenworthy,
• Sonja Kittelsen,
• Maren Olene Kloster,
• Emily Kocsis,
• Pratap Kumar,
• Arush Lal,
• Isabelle Lange,
• Heather Lanthorn,
• Frederic Le Marcis,
• Shelley Lees,
• Ann Louise Lie,
• Gojjam Limenih,
• Isabel Litwin-Davies,
• Charles Clarke Lodda,
• Knut Lönnroth,
• John Manton,
• Anatole Manzi,
• Mehr Manzoor,
• Robert Marten,
• Mitsuaki Matsui,
• Allan Mbewe,
• Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux,
• Linsey McGoey,
• Desmond McNeill,
• Claudio A Méndez,
• Karen Marie Moland,
• Zubia Mumtaz,
• Susan Fairley Murray,
• Devaki Nambiar,
• Erica Nelson,
• Claudia Nieto-Sanchez,
• Francis Obare,
• Vincent Okungu,
• Marit Tolo Østebø,
• Fatoumata Ouattara,
• Sachiko Ozawa,
• Ligia Paina,
• Rakesh Parashar,
• Elisabeth Paul,
• Koen Peeters,
• Cédric Pennetier,
• James Pfeiffer,
• Hanneke Pot,
• N S Prashanth,
• Robyn Preston,
• Antoine de Bengy Puyvallee,
• Annisa Rahmalia,
• Simon Reid-Henry,
• Daniela C Rodríguez,
• Maya Ronse,
• Emma Sacks,
• Oumar Mallé Samb,
• Eric Sarriot,
• Inger Brummenæs Scheel,
• Thomas Schwarz,
• Kerry Scott,
• Janet Seeley,
• Nadine Seward,
• Geordan Shannon,
• Jessica Shearer,
• Katharine Shelley,
• Kenneth Sherr,
• Jeremey Shiffman,
• Frédéric Simard,
• Neha S Singh,
• Werner Soors,
• Rusla Anne Springer,
• Adrienne Strong,
• Moses Tetui,
• Stephanie M Topp,
• Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay,
• Chi-Chi Undie,
• Sara Van Belle,
• Godelieve Van Heteren,
• André Janse van Rensburg,
• Veena Sriram,
• Sridhar Venkatapuram,
• Bradley H Wagenaar,
• Lauren Wallace,
• David R Walugembe,
• Oghenebrume Wariri,
• Alan OBE Whiteside,
• Bereket Yakob,
• Scholastica Zakayo,
• Tony Zitti,
• Anthony Zwi

Affiliations

David Sanders

Gastroenteroloy, Kelowna General Hospital, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Lu Gram

Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK

Benjamin Tsofa

Health Policy and Systems Research, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Johanne Sundby

Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Tolib Mirzoev

2 Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Kristine Bærøe

Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo Centre for Medical Ethics, Oslo, Norway

Ole Frithjof Norheim

Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Ejemai Eboreime

Valéry Ridde

3 Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Inserm, IRD, Université Paris Cité, F-75006 Paris, France

Kristine Husøy Onarheim

researcher

Emily Mendenhall

School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Vladimir S Gordeev

Tanya Doherty

Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa

Stephen Taylor

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK

David Peters

clinical director

Shariful Islam

University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Madhukar Pai

Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Elysée Nouvet

School of Health Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Francesca L Cavallaro

The Health Foundation, London, UK

Shafiu Mohammed

Sassy Molyneux

Centre for Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Karl Blanchet

8 Global Health Development, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

Janice E Graham

Department of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Kayvan Bozorgmehr

Department of Population Medicine and Health Services Research, School of Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

David McCoy

International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Joel Lexchin

associate professor

Anna-Karin Hurtig

Department for Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Asha George

professor

Rachel Chapman

consultant in public health

Loveday Penn-Kekana

Infectious Disease Epidemiology and International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Katerini T Storeng

Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Dina Balabanova

Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Veronique Filippi

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Sidsel Roalkvam

Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Grace Akello

Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

Melissa Parker

Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, United States of America

Jennifer Palmer

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Ibukun Abejirinde

Babatope Adebiyi

Clara Affun-Adegbulu

Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium

Jhon Álvarez Ahlgren

Ayesha Ahmad

reader

Sameh Al-Awlaqi

Center for International Health Protection, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Zongo Aloys

Gianna Gayle Amul

Muhammad Asaduzzaman

Akeza Awealom Asgedom

School of Public Health, Mekelle University College of Health Sciences, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia

Bouchra Assarag

8 Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique, Rabat, Morocco

Nicole Atchessi

Salla Atkins

1 Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Okikiolu Badejo

1 APIN Public Health Institute, Abuja, Nigeria

Bailah Molleh

Alessandra Bazzano

Dominique P Béhague

Uli Beisel

Loubna Belaid

Direction de la recherche et de l`enseignement, École Nationale d`Administration Publique (ÉNAP), Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Sarah Bernays

3 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, England

Shafi Bhuiyan

Olivia Biermann

Department of Global Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre on Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Harriet Birungi

Astrid Blystad

Oriane Bodson

Department of Integrated Health Services, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Emmanuel Bonnet

Résiliences, IRD, Bondy, France

Shibaji Bose

Michelle Brear

Rochelle Burgess

Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK

Jens Byskov

Séverine Carillon

Sophie Chabeda

Clare Chandler

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, UK

Francis F Chikuse

Juliana Iwu Chinwe

Beniamino Cislaghi

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Svea Closser

International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Christopher J Colvin

Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Western Cape, South Africa

Jenny Cresswell

Fabiana da Cunha Saddi

Judith Daire

School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Sarah Dalglish

Vincent de Brouwere

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Thérèse Delvaux

Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium

Annabel Desgrées du Loû

Brahima A Diallo

Aïssa Diarra

LASDEL, Niamey, Niger

Justin Dixon

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Alexandre Dumont

13 CEPED, Université Paris Cité, IRD, INSERM, Paris, France

Beth Engelbrecht

Susan Erikson

Adama Faye

Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Dakar, Senegal

Sara Fischer

Florence Fournet

Ashley M Fox

Joel Msafiri Francis

Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lara Gautier

Lucy Gilson

Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Sarah Gimbel

Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Jeff Glenn

Unni Gopinathan

4 Division for Health Services, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Christoph Gradmann

Institute of Health and Society, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Giulia Greco

5 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Karen Grepin

Anne Guichard

Pragya Tiwari Gupta

Viveka Guzman

Marte E S Haaland

Anna Häggblom

Amy Hagopian

School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Karin Hammarberg

1 Global and Women’s Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pascal Handschumacher

Katrina Hann

Sustainable Health Systems, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Marie Hasselberg

Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Natasha Howard

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, UK

Sameera Hussain

Eleanor Hutchinson

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Ezirim Idoteyin

Jennifer J Infanti

Rachel Irwin

Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Taufique Joarder

1 BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Preethi John

Ermel Johnson

Mira Johri

Carrefour de l`innovation, Centre de recherche du CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Judith Justice

Charles Kaboré

Kadidiatou Kadio

Centre national de la recherche scientifique et technologique (CNRST), Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Centre, Burkina Faso

Matthieu Kamwa

Ann H Kelly

Nora Kenworthy

Sonja Kittelsen

Maren Olene Kloster

Emily Kocsis

Pratap Kumar

General Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India

Arush Lal

master of philosophy and doctorate of philosophy candidate

Isabelle Lange

Heather Lanthorn

IDinsight Inc, San Francisco, California, USA

Frederic Le Marcis

Shelley Lees

Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Ann Louise Lie

Gojjam Limenih

Isabel Litwin-Davies

Charles Clarke Lodda

Knut Lönnroth

Department of Global Public Health, WHO Collaborating Centre on Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

John Manton

Anatole Manzi

Mehr Manzoor

Robert Marten

Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Mitsuaki Matsui

School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Allan Mbewe

Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux

Linsey McGoey

Desmond McNeill

Claudio A Méndez

Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Karen Marie Moland

Zubia Mumtaz

Susan Fairley Murray

Devaki Nambiar

1 The George Institute for Global Health India, New Delhi, India

Erica Nelson

Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Claudia Nieto-Sanchez

Francis Obare

Vincent Okungu

Marit Tolo Østebø

Fatoumata Ouattara

Sachiko Ozawa

Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical Education, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Ligia Paina

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Rakesh Parashar

Health Systems and Policy, Independent Consultant, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Elisabeth Paul

1 School of Public Health, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Koen Peeters

Department of Surgery, Leiden Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden, The Netherlands

Cédric Pennetier

James Pfeiffer

Hanneke Pot

N S Prashanth

Robyn Preston

1 School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallee

Annisa Rahmalia

Simon Reid-Henry

Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Daniela C Rodríguez

Maya Ronse

Emma Sacks

Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Oumar Mallé Samb

Department of Health Sciences, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada

Eric Sarriot

Global Health, Save the Children Federation, Washington, DC, USA

Inger Brummenæs Scheel

Thomas Schwarz

Kerry Scott

School of Global Health, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Janet Seeley

1 Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Nadine Seward

Centre for Implementation Science, Department of Health Service and Population Research, King`s College London, London, UK

Geordan Shannon

Institute for Global Health, UCL, London, UK

Jessica Shearer

Department of Hepatology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK

Katharine Shelley

Kenneth Sherr

Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Jeremey Shiffman

Frédéric Simard

Neha S Singh

3 Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Werner Soors

Rusla Anne Springer

Adrienne Strong

Moses Tetui

Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda

Stephanie M Topp

1 College of Public Health, Medical & Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay

Faculty of nursing sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Chi-Chi Undie

Sara Van Belle

Godelieve Van Heteren

André Janse van Rensburg

Veena Sriram

assistant professor of global health policy

Sridhar Venkatapuram

King`s College London, London, UK

Bradley H Wagenaar

Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Lauren Wallace

David R Walugembe

Oghenebrume Wariri

Vaccines and Immunity Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia

Alan OBE Whiteside

Bereket Yakob

Fenot Project, The University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Scholastica Zakayo

Tony Zitti

Anthony Zwi