Under the section Scientific Productivity, the 2010 report of the External Evaluation of INDEPTH recommended that ‘INDEPTH must campaign and work for fuller exploitation of sites’ data, but should not impose specific research topics on sites. As a supplementary strategy to the comparative studies pursued by Working Groups, it might consider commissioning a series of ‘‘Illustrative Analyses’’. This would entail an analyst working with one site’s data, producing a research paper on a strategically important topic that demonstrates to other sites what they can potentially achieve with such data. Backup documentation of how to produce the results would be helpful’. (Published: 30 August 2010) Citation: Global Health Action Supplement 1, 2010. DOI: 10.3402/gha.v3i0.5469