AMY BARNES is a PhD researcher in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.SONJA BARTSCH is Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.GARRETT WALLACE BROWN is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Theory and Global Ethics in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.TODD FAUBION is a health geographer whose research focuses on the political economy of treatment access for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.BRIGITTE HAMM is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.REBECCA HANLIN is Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice at the Open University, UK, and Director of Health Innovation at the ESRC Innogen Centre, UK.ELENA HESSELMANN studies Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany.PETER S. HILL is a public health physician and academic at the School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Australia.DAVID MCCOY is a doctor and public health specialist at the National Health Service and University College London, UK.LINSEY MCGOEY is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK.MICHAEL MORAN is Researcher at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.SARAH PAIGE is Medical Geographer at the University of Washington, USA. AMBER L. PEARSON is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University ofWashington, USA.CORNELIA ULBERT is Executive Director of the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.JEREMY YOUDE is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, USA.

• Private Actors in Global Health Governance; O.D.Williams & S.Rushton PART I: GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS A Critical Appraisal of Global Health Partnerships; S.Bartsch The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Expertise, Accountability and the Depoliticisation of Global Health Governance; A.Barnes & G.Wallace Brown The Alignment Dialogue: GAVI and its Engagement with National Governments in Health Systems Strengthening; P.S.Hill Evaluating Product Development Partnerships: Beyond quantitative metrics; R.Hanlin PART II: PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS Private Foundations and Global Health Partnerships: Philanthropists and 'Partnership Brokerage'; M.Moran Global Health and the Gates Foundation – In Perspective; D.McCoy & L.McGoey The Clinton Foundation and Global Health Governance; J.Youde Private Foundations as Agents of Development in Global Health: What Kind of Impact Do They Have and How To Assess It?; C.Ulbert & B.Hamm PART III: CROSS-CUTTING THEMES Co-opting the Global Health Agenda: The Problematic Role of Partnerships and Foundations; T.Faubion, S.Paige & A.L.Pearson The Limits of Control: The Accountability of Foundations and Partnerships in Global Health; E.Hesselmann Coda: The End of One Era and the Start of Another: Partnerships, Foundations and the Shifting Political Economy of Global Health; O.D.Williams & S.Rushton