Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low‐income countries: the need to engage programme managers and policy makers

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1 Medical Department (Operational Research Unit), Medecins sans Frontieres, Operational Centre Brussels, MSF-Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2 Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Brussels, Belgium 3 Department of Microbiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya 5 Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 6 Center for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France 7 International Union Against TB and Lung Disease, Kampala, Uganda 8 Medecins Sans Frontieres, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 9 International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South East Asia office, New Delhi, India 10 Medecins Sans Frontieres, Somali Mission, Somalia 11 Medecins Sans Frontieres, Bujumbura, Burundi 12 National Institute for Medical Research, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 13 National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Harare, Zimbabwe 14 Medecins Sans Frontieres, Capetown, South Africa 15 Medecins Sans Frontieres, Nairobi, Kenya 16 Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 17 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK