Table 1.

Interview schedule used for the semi-structured interviews of senior WHO leaders

Introduction
1. Briefly outline some of the global governance challenges that you encounter in your work. Do these have an impact on global health? How so?
Framing Global Health
2. In the day-to-day affairs of your organization, how is the advancement of global health conceptualised and framed in relation to the organization’s stated primary objects? [Can you provide any specific examples?]
a. How do you persuade other sectors to engage with global health?
Advancing Global Health through Global Governance
3. What steps are taken by your organization to ensure that health is protected and promoted within its deliberations, policies and activities? Where and when in the planning, deliberation, and implementation processes of your organization is health considered?
4. What are the major barriers to collaboration between your organization and a global governance institution from a different sector, towards the advancement of global health?
5. What are the major enablers to collaboration between your organization and a global governance institution from a different sector, towards the advancement of global health?
6. Given the major barriers and enablers, and the conceptual (2) and procedural (3) contexts discussed, are there any proposals or solutions you would like to see?