Members of the Evidence and Recommendation Review Groups (ERRGs)

There were three ERRGs, one for each domain of this guidance: Clinical services, Service delivery, Law and policy. Below each list of ERRG (expert panels) members, additional contributors to the pre-ERRG scoping meetings are listed per domain.

GDG meeting observers:

• Patricia Lohr, Medical Director, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), London, United Kingdom; also member of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Making Abortion Safe Programme Advisory Group
• Jaydeep Tank, Secretary General of the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) and Chair, International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FIGO) Working Group for safe abortion, Mumbai, India
• Francelle Toedtli, Consultant, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), New York, New York, USA
• Ann Yates, Lead Midwife Adviser, International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), Head Office, The Hague, the Netherlands

Guideline methodologist(s)

Clinical services domain: Jeppe Schroll, Consultant, Research Coordinator and Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amager Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Service delivery domain: Nicholas Henschke and Gemma Villanueva, Senior Systematic Reviewers, and Yanina Sguassero, Systematic Review, of Cochrane Response

Law and policy domain: Maria Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon, USA

Evidence Synthesis Team(s)

Clinical services domain:

• Cochrane Fertility Regulation (CFR) Group, at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
  • Lead researchers: Alison Edelman, Maria Rodriguez, Makalapua Motu’apuaka, Taylor King
  • Search strategy support: Robyn Paynter
  • Team members/review authors: Jessica Atrio, Sharon Cameron, Justin T. Diedrich, Eleanor Drey, Alison Edelman, Katherine Gambir, Bela Ganatra, Jeffrey T.J. Jensen, Nathalie Kapp, Caron Kim, Patricia Lohr, Adrienne E. McKercher, Karen Meckstroth, Chelsea Morroni, Kelly Ann Necastro, Sara J. Newmann, Thoai D. Ngo, Antoinette Nguyen, Mark D.N. Nichols, Regina-Maria Renner, John J. Reynolds-Wright, Tesfaye Tufa, Mulat A. Woldetsadik
• WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) staff, consultants and Family Planning fellows:
  • Michelle Chan, Family Planning fellow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Elizabeth Clark, Family Planning fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Teresa DePiñeres, Lead Clinician, Medication Abortion Access Project, Essential Access Health
  • Margit Endler, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Stockholm South Central Hospital, and Researcher, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Roopan Gill, Consultant, Preventing Unsafe Abortion Unit, SRH Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Women’s Health Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Paris, France
  • Yelena Korotkaya, Family Planning fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Lemi Tolu, Family Planning fellow, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Service delivery domain:

• Cochrane Response
  • Lead researchers: Nicholas Henschke, Yanina Sguassero and Gemma Villanueva
  • Search strategy support: Elise Cogo
  • Team members/review authors: Hanna Bergman, Brian Buckley, Jennifer Petkovic, Chantelle Garritty, Candyce Hamel, Katrin Probyn
• WHO SRH staff, consultants and Family Planning fellows:
  • Ferid Abubeker, Family Planning fellow, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Mekdes Feyssa, Medical Officer, Preventing Unsafe Abortion (PUA) Unit, SRH Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Roopan Gill, Consultant, PUA Unit, SRH Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Women’s Health Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Paris, France
  • Caron Kim, Medical Officer, PUA Unit, SRH Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Bianca Stifani, Family Planning fellow, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
  • Tesfaye Tufa, Family Planning fellow, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Other contributors:
  • Ernestina Coast, Professor of Health and International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
  • Samantha Lattof, Visiting Fellow, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
  • Brittany Moore, Consultant, Scientific and Technical Division Advisor, Ipas, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  • Cheri Poss, Associate Director, Program Evidence, Ipas, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  • Yana Rodgers, Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Law and policy domain:

• The Policy Surveillance Program at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Lead researcher: Scott Burris
  • Team members/review authors: Lindsay Foster Cloud, Adrienne R. Ghorashi, Rachel Rebouché, Patty Skuster
• Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Lead researcher: Fiona de Londras, Chair of Global Legal Studies, Birmingham Law School
  • Team members/review authors: Alana Farrell, Magdalena Furgalska
• WHO SRH staff and consultants:
  • Amanda Cleeve, Consultant in sexual and reproductive health and preventing unsafe abortion, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Antonella Lavelanet, Medical Officer, PUA Unit, SRH Department, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Reviewers from implementing organizations who provided feedback on the draft guideline

• Bethan Cobley, MSI Reproductive Choices, London, United Kingdom
• Rasha Dabash, Ipas, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
• Eva Lathrop, Population Services International (PSI), Washington, DC, USA
• Steve Luboya, Pathfinder, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
• Rebecca Wilkins, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), London, United Kingdom