summarize Among theorists who engage with actor agency, an important domain of power analysis focuses on how actors may draw power from particular sources such as resources, skills, knowledge, access or individual attributes (French and Raven, 1959). Recognizing how individuals, organizations and networks derive their power is important for sharpening our understanding of how and why power flows in particular directions or accumulates with certain groups. Such an understanding also facilitates an awareness of how those sources of power are distributed unevenly as well as how they may be used to improve equity in health policy and systems. Several sources of power have been identified in social science literature, including (but not limited to): Technical expertisePower derived from knowledge, skills and information held by individuals, and the individuals' authoritative claim to that knowledge (Haas, 1992); power and knowledge are inextricable, and shape discursive norms in society (Foucault, 1994)