^a Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland 

^b Sciences Po, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations and Chaire Santé, CNRS, Paris, France 

^c International Council of Nurses, Geneva, Switzerland 

^d Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China 

^e Patient Safety Flagship Unit, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland 

^f One Health Trust, Washington, DC, USA 

^g Imperial College and the George Institute for Global Health, London, UK 

^h Hospital Universitario Fundacion Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain 

ⁱ Malaysian Society for Quality in Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

^j Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 

^k Nouvelle Aquitaine Healthcare-Associated Infection Control Centre, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France 

^l Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA 

^m Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA 

ⁿ Division of Infectious Diseases & Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland 

^o Division of Patient Safety, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan 

^p East Central and Southern Africa Health Community, Arusha, Tanzania 

^q Patient and Health Workers Safety Division, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya 

^r Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland