title: Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting: the GATHER statement.
abstract: Gretchen Stevens and colleagues present the GATHER statement, which seeks to promote good practice in the reporting of global health estimates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Gretchen A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Leontine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alkema
authors.affiliation: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Black
authors.affiliation: Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J Ties
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Boerma
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Gary S
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2772-2316
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Majid
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2109-8081
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ezzati
authors.affiliation: Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Grove
authors.affiliation: Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Daniel R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.affiliation: Independent consultant, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
authors.forename: Margaret C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hogan
authors.affiliation: The Lancet, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Joy E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Lawn
authors.affiliation: Department of Research in Biomedicine and Health and Cochrane Croatia, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marušić
authors.affiliation: Department of Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Colin D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Mathers
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
authors.forename: Christopher J L
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rudan
authors.affiliation: Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Joshua A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Salomon
authors.affiliation: PLOS Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Theo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vos
authors.affiliation: Bruyére Research Institute, Bruyére Continuing Care, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.|Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Vivian
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Welch
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist; D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards*; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D014943:Global Health; D006302:Health Services Research; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans