Updated on: 22 February 2021

1. Financial interests

a) Received research funding: any grant, contract or gift, commissioned research, or fellowship from The Cochrane Collaboration or a related organisation (i.e. any organisation related to health care or medical research) to conduct research?
Yes - • UK DFID funding for Southern African Regional Access to Medicines and Diagnostics, guidelines review within the Southern African Development Community 2010 - 2018, principal investigator • UK DFID with Effective Health Care Research Consortium, 2010 – 2015, co-investigator • EDCTP funding, Pan African Clinical Trials Registry, 2012 – 2014, principal investigator • UK DFID B-CURE, subcontract from University of Johannesburg, 2014 – 2016, collaborator • Cochrane Initiative to build evidence synthesis, Cochrane Collaboration, 2013 – 2015, co-investigator • WHO Alliance for Health Policy, Policy Buddies programme, 2013 -2015, co-investigator • National Health Department, South African National Clinical Trials Registry, 2015 ongoing, principal investigator • MRC Flagship award for Project SAGE (South African Guideline Excellence), 2014 -2019, principal investigator • WHO funding to conduct systematic review to inform HIV guideline processes, 2015, co-investigator • Cochrane funding for the Cochrane African Network, 2015-2016, co-principal investigator • Liverpool School Tropical Medicine, (UK DFID) READ-IT, 2018 – 2024, collaborator, site principal investigator • German Federal Ministry funding (BMBF) Collaboration for Evidence Based HealthCare in Africa (CEBHA+), 2017 – 2022, Cochrane South Africa, site principal investigator • Social Impact Bond for adolescent health in South Africa, 2018 – ongoing, collaborator • NIH Travel grant to McMaster GRADE Working Group meeting, June 2019 • Evidence Response Initiative for SAMRC, in support of UHC, August 2019 • Cochrane KT Evaluation support project, collaborator, January 2020 • Co-Principal applicant, Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), eCOVID-19 Recommendations Map project 2020 -2021

b) Had paid consultancies: any paid work, consulting fees (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
Yes - Consultancies as technical advisor (guideline methodologist) for the World Health Organization (2019, 2020, 2021)

c) Received honoraria: one-time payments (in cash or kind) from a related organisation?
No

d) Served as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or held a position of management with a related organisation?
No

e) Possessed share-holdings, stock, stock options, equity with a related organisation (excludes mutual funds or similar arrangements where the individual has no control over the selection of the shares)?
No

f) Received personal gifts from a related organisation?
No

g) Had an outstanding loan with a related organisation?
No

h) Received royalty payments from a related organisation?
No

2. Do you have any other competing interests that could pose a conflict of interest that would reasonably appear to be related to the primary interest?
No