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Article History

Received: 4 April 2025

Accepted: 5 June 2025

First Online: 2 September 2025

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: NB, KK, DN, AS, ARH are part of the Health Inequality Monitoring team at WHO Headquarters. The team has authored and contributed to books on health inequality monitoring [, , ], and published global and national health inequality reports, and journal articles, including systematic reviews []. It conducts health inequality monitoring courses and workshops with diverse audiences and leads the development of journal special issues devoted to reporting on health inequalities [–]. Also working at WHO Headquarters, TSK leads work on assessing barriers to effective coverage with health services and mainstreaming equity approaches into health programming. OJM has over 25 years of experience as the Senior Regional Advisor in Social Epidemiology and Health Equity at the Pan American Health Organization. AJDB, director of the International Center for Equity in Health, is a leading researcher and author in the field of global health equity and has contributed to making equity analyses more accessible to a wider audience. PB has been a leader globally on the concepts of health inequalities and health equity and the implications for measurement. PG has contributed to national and international projects that review and monitor the social determinants of health inequities. OOD has coauthored a handbook on health equity analysis with survey data []. VW has led reporting guidelines on assessing health equity in systematic reviews, randomized trials and guidelines [, , ].