1. National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College, Hammersmith Campus, London, UK
2. Division of Health Services Research and Management, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, Northampton Square, London, UK
3. Institute of Business & Health Management, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
4. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5. Centre d’Appui à la Prévention des Infections Associées aux Soins (CPias), Pays de la Loire, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France
6. Division of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, Northampton Square, London, UK
7. Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
8. Department of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita University, Kerala, India
9. King’s Business School, King’s College London, Bush House, London, UK
10. Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
11. Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
12. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Carlos G Durand, Buenos Aires, Argentina
13. Department of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
14. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
15. Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
16. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland