Our support

Acknowledgements

A warm thank-you to all of those who have been members, supporters, contributors, and colleagues of the Cochrane Health Equity Field and Campbell Equity Methods Group since its inception. 
When registering the Field and the Methods Group, we were fortunate to have the support of many health equity experts from around the world, and wish to thank the following:

- Xavier Bonfill, Director, Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre
- Kathie Clark, the Canadian Cochrane Centre
- Davidson Gwatkin, World Bank
- Ronald Labonte,  Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, Professor, Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina, Professor, Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan.
- Mary Ann Lansang, the University of Manila
- Kath Moser, Lecturer, Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Geraldine MacDonald, Coordinating Editor, Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group, and Co-convenor of the Campbell Social Welfare Group.
- Miranda Mugford, the Campbell-Cochrane Economic Methods Working Group
- Vic Neufeld, McMaster University
- Annette M. O'Connor RN PhD, Canada Research Chair in Health Care Consumer Decision Support, Professor, University of Ottawa School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program
- Alex Scott-Samuel, University of Liverpool
- Chitr Sitthi-Amorn, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
- Elizabeth Waters, Director of the Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field
- EQUINET Africa
- INCLEN (International Clinical Epidemiology Network)

We would also like to thank the Cochrane Monitoring and Registration Group for their help and guidance throughout the registration process.

Funding

We are very pleased to acknowledge the following sources of funding:

- Health Canada, Bureau of Women’s Health and Gender Analysis
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Knowledge Translation Branch
- The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)
- CIHR Institutes of Health Services and Policy Research, Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Gender and Health, Human Development, Child and Youth Health, Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, Institute of Infection and Immunity
- Cochrane Collaboration Prioritisation Projects
- University of Ottawa, Institute of Population Health