"The World Health Report 2008 was produced under the overalldirection of Tim Evans (Assistant Director-General) and Wim Van Lerberghe(editor-in-chief). The principal writing team consisted of Wim VanLerberghe, Tim Evans, Kumanan Rasanathan and Abdelhay Mechbal. Other maincontributors to the drafting of the report were: Anne Andermann, DavidEvans, Benedicte Galichet, Alec Irwin, Mary Kay Kindhauser, Remo Meloni,Thierry Mertens, Charles Mock, Hernan Montenegro, Denis Porignon andDheepa Rajan. Organizational supervision of the report was provided byRamesh Shademani." - t.p. verso