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. 2018 Dec 7:363:k4771.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4771.

Business not as usual: how multisectoral collaboration can promote transformative change for health and sustainable development

Shyama Kuruvilla  1 , Rachael Hinton  2 , Ties Boerma  3 , Ryan Bunney  4 , Nuria Casamitjana  5 , Rafael Cortez  6 , Patrizia Fracassi  7 , Jennifer Franz-Vasdeki  8 , Daniel Helldén  9 , Joanne McManus  10 , Susan Papp  11 , Kumanan Rasanathan  12 , Jennifer Requejo  13 , Karlee L Silver  14 , Petra Tenhoope-Bender  15 , Yael Velleman  16 , Mary Nell Wegner  17 , Corinne E Armstrong  18 , Sarah Barnett  19 , Carla Blauvelt  20 , Saidatul Norbaya Buang  21 , Louise Bury  22 , Emily A Callahan  23 , Jai K Das  24 , Vandana Gurnani  25 , Mary White Kaba  26 , Helia Molina Milman  27 , John Murray  28 , Ilona Renner  29 , Marion Leslie Roche  30 , Victoria Saint  31 , Sarah Simpson  32 , Hasina Subedar  33 , Daria Ukhova  34 , Claudia Nieves Velásquez  35 , Patricia Young  36 , Wendy Graham  37 ; PMNCH Multisectoral Collaboration Study Group
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Business not as usual: how multisectoral collaboration can promote transformative change for health and sustainable development

Shyama Kuruvilla et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Shyama Kuruvilla and colleagues present findings across 12 country case studies of multisectoral collaboration, showing how diverse sectors intentionally shape new ways of collaborating and learning, using “business not as usual” strategies to transform situations and achieve shared goals

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have the following interests to declare: RH is employed by PMNCH, which provided funding to support the country case study teams; CEA, SB, CB, SNB, LB, EAC, JKD, JFV, VG, HMM, JM, JM, IR, MLR, VS, SS, HS, DU, CNW, PY received funding from PMNCH for consultancy fees and related costs for undertaking the case study. All other authors contributed in kind to this collective effort with their time and inputs.

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A multisectoral collaboration model to achieve transformative change. Findings adapted from Dewey 1938 and Kuruvilla and Dorstewitz 2010 to specify “what makes multisectoral collaborations work”
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