Members of the STROBE Initiative

Douglas G. Altman†
In memoriam; Professor of Medical Statistics, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Wolfson College Annexe, Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK.

Myriam Cevallos Christen
Scientific Advisor, Swiss Delegate for Health & Open Science, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI

Bruno da Costa
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Matthias Egger
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

Patrizia Frei 
Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter C. Gøtzsche
Director, Institute for Scientific Freedom, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cindy Mulrow
Senior Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Centre, San Antonio, USA

Landon Myer
Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Observatory South Africa 7925, Cape Town, South Africa

Stuart J. Pocock
Professor of Medical Statistics, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK

Charlie Poole
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 2104A McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Andrew Renehan
Professor in Cancer Studies and Surgery, University of Manchester, Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jan P. Vandenbroucke
Professor (emeritus) of Clinical Epidemiology, Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Hospital, CO-P, PO Box 9600, NL-2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands

Erik von Elm
Codirector Cochrane Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Corniche 10, CH-1010 Lausanne, Switzerland

Additional contributors

Maria Blettner
Professor of Epidemiology, Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, D-55101 Mainz, Germany

Paolo Boffetta
Genetics and Epidemiology Cluster International Agency for Research on Cancer 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France

Hermann Brenner
Professor of Epidemiology, Dept. of Epidemiology, The German Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Geneviève Chêne
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, INSERM Unité 593, University of Bordeaux, 146 Rue Leo Saignat, F-33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France

Cyrus Cooper
Professor, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK.

George Davey Smith
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2PR, UK

France Gagnon
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Room 3227, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5

Philip Greenland
Harry W. Dingman Professor and Chair, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680 N. Lake Schore Drive, 1102 Chicago, IL 60611

Sander Greenland
Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095-1772, USA

Claire Infante-Rivard
Professor, McGill University, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, 1130 Pine Avenue West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 1A3

John Ioannidis
Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

Astrid James
Deputy Editor, The Lancet, 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, UK

Giselle Jones
Papers Editor, BMJ Editorial, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR, UK

Bruno Ledergerber
Senior researcher, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, Rämistr. 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland

Julian Little
Professor of Molecular and Human Genome Epidemiology, Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Genomics Health, Services Research and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine
University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5

Margaret May
Dept. of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK

David Moher
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Chalmers Research Group,Childrens’ Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa,Ontario K1H 8L1, Canada

Hooman Momen
Editor Bulletin of the WHO, World Health Organization EIP/KMS/PLT, Av. Appia 20, CH-1211 Geneva 27,Switzerland

Alfredo Morabia
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Editor Sozial- und Präventivmedizin / Int J Public Health, University of Geneva, Service d’Epidémiologie clinique, 25 Rue Micheli-du-Crest, CH-1205 Genève, Switzerland

Hal Morgenstern
Professor and Chair, Dept.of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 109 Observatory Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-2029

Cynthia D. Mulrow
MD MSc FACP, Deputy Editor Annals of Internal Medicine, 6415 Pemwoods, San Antonio, TX 78240, USA

Fred Paccaud
Professor, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Drummond Rennie
Ass. Editor, JAMA and Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Institute for Health Policy Studies, 9627 Sterling Creek Rd. Jacksonville, OR 97530-9333, USA

Dietrich Rothenbacher
Senior Researcher, Dept. of Epidemiology, The German Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Kenneth Rothman
Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, founding editor Epidemiology

Caroline Sabin
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Dept. of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, rowland Hill St., London NW3 SPF, UK

Willi Sauerbrei
Department of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Medical Center, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26,D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

Lale Say
Senior Researcher, Monitoring & Evaluation, Dept. of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20, Avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

James J. Schlesselman
Director Biostatistics Facility, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Sterling Plaza Suite 325, 201 North Craig Street, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA

Jonathan Sterne
Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Dept. of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK

Holly Syddall
MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK

Ian White
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK

Susan Wieland
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Box G, Providence RI 02912, USA

Hywel Williams
Professor, Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK

Guang Yong Zou
Robarts Research Institute 1, 1st floor, PO BOX 5015, 100 Perth Drive, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5K8