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Corlien M. Varkevisser, MA, PhD, MPH, is a medical sociologist-anthropologist by profession who specialised in public health. As a staff member of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, and former head of the Primary Health Care (PHC) Unit, she has gained extensive experience in health systems research and PHC management in sub-Saharan Africa. She was one of the co-initiators of the Joint HSR Project (WHO/Netherlands Ministry for Development Cooperation/ Royal Tropical Institute) for Southern Africa and was based at the WHO Sub-regional Office in Harare as manager of the Joint HSR Project from its onset in April 1987 till 1992. Thereafter she became manager of the MPH course at the RTI and professor in HSR at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam.

Indra Pathmanathan, MMBS, MPH, is a physician specialised in public health who, as Head of the HSR program of the Ministry of Health in Malaysia since its inception, has been responsible for developing and implementing several strategies for HSR that have been replicated in other countries. These included training programs in HSR and Quality Assurance for decision-makers in ministries, for physicians, and for staff in district health teams, hospitals, and universities. She was a member of the Advisory Group on HSR, WHO-Geneva and served on the editorial board of BRIDGE. Over the past ten years she has been a consultant to the World Bank in the field of health.

Ann Brownlee, MA, PhD, is a medical sociologist who specialised in HSR, planning and evaluation, and cross-cultural aspects of health care. She served as Research and Evaluation Coordinator for the Project for Strengthening Health Delivery Systems in West and Central Africa for a number of years, where she worked closely with WHO’s Regional Office for Africa and with colleagues from Africa and elsewhere to develop an HSR training program and to publish the HSR Training Course that was a forerunner of this volume. She currently works as a consultant in international health for groups such as WHO, IDRC, and Wellstart and teaches at the University of California at San Diego.

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