Table 1 Basic demographic information about key informants (to protect KIs’ anonymity, identifying information has been removed)
Key Informant (KI) | Current position | Previous experience relevant to scale-up | Type of intervention scaled up or studied(in current or past positions) | Papers indexed in PubMed: No. of papers, and key topics of research |
|---|---|---|---|---|
KI 1 | Academic global health post in a HIC; university leadership post | Leadership of a multilateral health agency, headquartered in Europe; has led large-scale implementation in LMICs | Experience in scaling up both simple interventions (e.g. a specific drug treatment) and complex interventions (e.g. complex public health promotion) | Approx. 300 papers; communicable and non-communicable disease control |
KI 2 | Academic global health post in a HIC; university leadership post | Previous academic posts; leadership positions in two multilateral organizations, one headquartered in Europe and the other in the US; has led large-scale implementation in LMICs | Experience in scaling up both simple and complex interventions | Approx. 100 papers; global health financing, child health, public health, and communicable and non-communicable disease control |
KI 3 | Academic global health post in a HIC; leads health service scale-up projects in LMICs | Has led multiple health systems improvement projects in LMICs | Experience in scaling up complex, health systems interventions in LMICs | Approx. 75 papers; scaling up health systems improvements in LMICs, financing of global health |
KI 4 | Academic public health post in a MIC in Africa; advises national government on large-scale implementation | Research on scaling up in LMICs, with a focus on building research capacity and on health systems | Research on scaling up simple and complex interventions | Approx. 30 papers; implementation science in LMICs, global health research prioritization |
KI 5 | Academic health policy post in a HIC; specializes in health systems reform | Research on health systems reform in both LMICs and HICs | Research on scaling up complex health systems improvements | Approx. 75 papers; health systems financing in HICs and LMICs, measurement of health system performance |
KI 6 | Academic global health post in a HIC; university leadership post | Senior positions in national public health service in a HIC | Research on, and experience in, scaling up complex interventions to control risk factors for non-communicable diseases | Approx. 90 papers; risk factors for non-communicable diseases, environmental health interventions, global health diplomacy |
KI 7 | Academic post in global health in a HIC; university leadership post | Academic leadership positions at national agencies in a HIC that focus on global health problems | Research on scaling up infectious disease control interventions in LMICs | Approx. 200 papers; infectious disease control, global health initiatives, health systems strengthening in LMICs |
KI 8 | Academic public health post; principal of a medical school in a LIC in Africa | Led national scale-up campaigns addressing communicable diseases | Research on, and experience in, scaling up simple and complex interventions to control communicable diseases | Approx. 150 papers; control of communicable diseases in LMICs, global health training, health systems strengthening |
KI 9 | Academic public health post at a school of global health in a HIC | Research on large-scale implementation, with a focus on communicable diseases; previous senior positions in regional public health service | Research on scaling up simple and complex interventions to control communicable diseases | Approx. 120 papers; infectious disease epidemiology and control, public health research methods |
KI 10 | Women’s health researcher in a MIC in Latin America | Academic research posts in LIC universities; leadership of a regional research and implementation initiative | Research on, and experience in, scaling up individual and bundled clinical interventions | Approx. 120 papers; scaling up women’s health interventions in LMICs |
KI 11 | Implementation science researcher in a HIC | Academic public health posts, with a focus on implementation of health interventions in a HIC | Research on, and experience in, scaling up simple and complex clinical and public health interventions | Approx. 50 papers; implementation science, quality improvement in health care |
KI 12 | Director of a scale-up program in a LIC | Background in clinical medicine and global public health, dividing time between a LIC and a HIC | Experience in scaling up simple and complex interventions in an LIC | 3 papers; scaling up health system interventions in LICs |
KI 13 | Professor of epidemiology, with a focus on global public health, based at a university in a HIC | Clinical trials, and public health research related to women’s and children’s health | Research on scaling up simple and complex clinical and public health interventions | Approx. 150 papers; scaling up women’s and children’s health interventions, global public health |
KI 14 | Senior leadership position at an NGO that manages large-scale implementation in LMICs | Past background in business and technology; senior role in a major global initiative to rapidly scale up a communicable disease intervention | Experience in scaling up simple and complex interventions in HICs and LMICs | 4 papers; large scale health improvement |