A Comparison of Frameworks Evaluating Evidence for Global Health Interventions: e1001469

Abbreviations: 3IE, Impact Evaluation; CHWs, community or lay health workers; EVIPnet, Evidence Informed Policy Networks; GRADE, Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation; HASTE, Highest Attainable STandard of Evidence; NHMRC, Australian National Health and Medical Research Council; PMTCT, Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission; RCTs, randomized controlled trials; RR, relative risk; SUPPORT, SUPporting POlicy relevant Reviews and Trials; SURE, Supporting the Use of Research Evidence for policy in African health systems; USCPSTF, U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force; WHO, World Health Organization Provenance: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed. Robert Balster, PhD; Jefferson Science Fellow, USAID, Washington, DC, USA Stefan Baral, MD, MPH; Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Al Bartlett, MD; Director, Saving Newborn Lives Program, Save The Children, Washington, DC, USA Leonard Bickman, PhD; Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Public Policy; Director, Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement (CEPI), Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Kevin M. De Cock, MD; Director, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Donna Farley, PhD, MPH; Senior Health Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Geoff Garnett, PhD; Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK Paul Gertler, PhD; Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Irene Koek, PhD; Director of the Health office for USAID/Indonesia, USAID, Indonesia Cliff Lane, MD; Director Division of Clinical Research, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Jack Molyneaux, MD; Director of Impact Evaluation, Millennium Challenges Corporation, Washington, DC, USA Pierre Ongolo-Zogo, MD; Head - Centre for Development of Best Practices in Health, Yaoundé Central Hospital, Yaoundé, Cameroon Mead Over, PhD; Senior VP, Healthcare Improvement Division, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA Ariel Pablos-Méndez, MD, MPH; Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID, Washington, DC, USA Tikki Pangestu, PhD; Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Laurence Slutsker, MD, MPH; Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Geogia, USA Kieran Walshe, PhD; Professor of Health Po