Acknowledgements

IDRC provided core funding and in-kind support has been given by the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine and School of Nursing, the University of British Columbia, Queen's University, Harvard University School of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Health Systems Research Institutes in Thailand, and the World Health Organization.

The team is led by Dr. Peter Tugwell and Janet Hatcher Roberts, Co-Directors of the WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity and Dr. David Banta advised the process.

The chapter leaders were: Dr. Chitr Sitthi-Amorn (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), Dr. Somsak Chunharas, Dr. Manathip Osiri and Dr. Tessa Tan Torres (University of the Philippines), Dr. David Evans(WHO), Dr. Arminee Kazanjian (University of British Columbia), Dr. Michael Reich (Harvard University), Dr. Yvo Nuyens (COHRED, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr. Raisa Deber (University of Toronto). Janet Hatcher Roberts, Co-Director of the Collaborating Centre, supervised the process in Ottawa. Barbara Laperrière provided research support, and Marie-Josée Dion, Dr. Sharmila Mhatre, Jeea Saraswati and Dr. Sharen Madden in turn coordinated the project through the Collaborating Centre. The Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA, Ottawa) provided editing and formatting services.

List of Authors and Affiliations

	
Dr. Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
Director,Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University
Phya Thai Road, Bangkok, Thailand
Fax: 66-2-255-6046
chitr@chulkn.chula.ac.th

Dr. David Banta
Retired from TNO
67 Rue de la Roquette,
75011 Paris, France
Tel: 33-1-44930052
hdavidbana@cs.com

Dr. Somsak Chunharas
National Health Foundation
1168 Paholyothin 22
Jatujak
Bangkok 10900, Thailand
Tel: 66-25116855
Fax: 66-29392122
somsak@health.moph.go.th

Dr. Raisa B. Deber
PhD Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, 2nd Floor
12 Queen's Park Crescent West
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8
Tel: 416-978-8366
Fax: 416-978-7350
rasia.deber@utoronto.ca
 
Dr. David Evans 
Director
Department of Health System Financing, Expenditure and Resource Allocation (FER)
World Health Organization
Geneva,Switzerland
Tel: 41-22-791-3768
Fax: 41-22-791-4328
evansd@who.int

Arminée Kazanjian, Dr. Soc.
Professor
Health Care & Epidemiology
Faculty of Medicine
The University of British Columbia
5804 Fairview Ave
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z3
Tel: 604-822-4618
Fax: 604-822-4994
a.kazanjian@.ubc.ca

Dr. Yvo Nuyens
Professor Emeritus,
211 Rue des Fontanettes,
01220 Divonne, France
yvo.nuyens@free.fr

Dr. Manathip Osiri
Dept of Medicine
Chulalongkorn University
Phya Thai Road
Bangkok, Thailand
Tel: 662-256-4246
Fax: 662-252-7858
mosiri@hotmail.com 

Dr. Michael R. Reich
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street
Cambridge, 
MA02138 USA
Tel: 617-495-2021
Fax: 617 495-5418
michael_reich@harvard.edu

Dr. Tessa Tan Torres
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
tantorres@who.int
	

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