Stakeholders identified, description and interviewed (yes or no)
| Stakeholder | Description | Interviewed |
| Ministry of Health (MOH): key representatives | Main government regulatory and decision-making body concerning (public) health affairs. | Yes |
| Physician assistants (PAs) | PAs working in an urban, rural, private and public sector were interviewed. | Yes |
| PA training institutions: key representatives | All three PA (public and private) training institutions were interviewed. | Yes |
| PA Association and PA Board | Official regulatory bodies of the PAs. | Yes |
| Liberian Medical and Dental Association: key representative | Association of MOs or medical doctors with a close link to the LMDC and with a large influence within the medical sector. | Yes |
| Liberian Medical and Dental Council: key representative | Regulatory body of MOs with a large influence within the medical sector. | Yes |
| Medical officers (MOs) | General practitioners or non-specialised MOs or doctors. | Yes |
| Surgeons and gynaecologists | MOs specialised in surgery or gynaecology. Senior authorities in the field of surgery and gynaecology in the country. | Yes |
| AM Dogliotti College of Medicine: key representative | The Liberian Medical College. | Yes |
| JFK Hospital: key representative | Largest tertiary hospital and training centre for medical postgraduate training. | Yes |
| Liberian College of Physicians and Surgeons: key representative | Institution involved in co-ordinating the medical postgraduate programme. | Yes |
| WHO: key representative | United Nations (UN) agency important for policy making, important donor to the medical sector. | Yes |
| United Nations Population Fund: key representative | UN agency important for policy making, important donor to the medical sector. | Yes |
| Nursing and Midwifery Board: key representative | Regulatory body of the nurses and midwives, including the COs. | Yes |
| Clinical obstetricians (COs) | Midwives trained in obstetric surgery. | Yes |
| Trainer COs | Gynaecologist training COs. | Yes |
| Hospital administrators | Non-medical lead within the hospital management. | Yes |
| National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL): key representative | In collaboration with the MOH, NPHIL strengthens existing infection prevention and control efforts, public health capacity building, response to outbreaks and monitoring of diseases with epidemic potential. | Yes |
| Ministry of Finance | Important for budget allocation towards the MOH. | No |
| Nurses | Another cadre that could be trained in surgery. Views assessed during the interview of the Nursing and Midwifery Board. | No |
| Law makers (Senate and House of Representatives) | Which could enact policy concerning surgical task sharing into practice. | No |
| Community | Final recipients of medical services. | No |
| Other donor organisations, like Partners in Health and MSF | NA. | No |
| US Agency for International Development: key representative | Important donor organisation to the medical sector of Liberia. | No |