1 Division of Healthcare Delivery Research, MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, USA.
2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington USA.
3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, USA.
4 UNDP, UNFPA, Unicef, WHO, World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
5 Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
6 Center for Global Non-Communicable Disease Research and Training, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA wcheckl1@jhmi.edu.
7 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Suzanne Simkovich and colleagues argue for implementation research to meet the needs of end users and use of open source data to strengthen preventive strategies for non-communicable diseases in women of reproductive age