Global Health Security Index
The GHS Index highlights individual country needs, boost compliance with international standards, and create better understanding of global capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats.
Biological
The dangers are real.
We can create a safer world.
NTI offers solutions.
The dangers are real.
Biological threats—natural, intentional or accidental—could kill millions and cost billions.
As COVID-19 has vividly demonstrated, the risk of a catastrophic biological event is magnified by an increasingly interconnected world, challenged by political instability, urbanization, climate change, and new technologies that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to create and engineer pathogens.
228 Million+ Global cases of COVID-19
38.9 The average 2021 GHS Index score, showing that global preparedness for epidemics and pandemics is fundamentally weak
170+ The number of experts participating in NTI | bio’s Global Biosecurity Dialogue across 40+ countries and organizations.
We can create a safer world.
Biological risks are growing. All countries must prepare to prevent and respond.
Addressing biological threats is a shared responsibility between governments and the private sector. NTI | bio fosters new thinking, tests solutions, and advocates for change.
Featured Projects
Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction Initiative
Advances in biotechnology outpace national governments’ ability to provide needed oversight to prevent accidents or deliberate misuse of dangerous biological agents.
Global Biosecurity Dialogue
Reducing biological risk and enhancing global security
Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Preventing global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRS)
International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS)
Safeguarding modern bioscience and biotechnology so it can advance and flourish safely and responsibly
Preventing the Misuse of DNA Synthesis Technology
Establishing an international Common Mechanism for DNA Synthesis Screening
Next Generation for Biosecurity
Cultivating the Next Generation of Global Biosecurity Leaders
Joint Assessment Mechanism to Determine Pandemic Origins
Rapidly assessing origins of high-consequence global biological events
Visibility Initiative for Responsible Science (VIRS)
Establishing stronger norms and practices to prevent accidents, misuse, and other adverse outcomes of life science research
NTI offers solutions.
New Report Recommends Biosecurity Safeguards for Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices
A new NTI | bio report describes the status of benchtop DNA synthesis devices, explains the risks for biosecurity, and recommends action and oversight by governments, industry, and the scientific community.
NTI | bio Experts Outline Strategies for Preventing State Bioweapons Development and Use
NTI | bio Hosts 2023 Global Biosecurity Dialogue Workstream Meetings
Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance
Investing in Global Health Security: How to Build a Fund for Pandemic Preparedness in 2022
The Global Health Security Index
Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats
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