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
International Bio Funders Compact
Incorporating biosecurity reviews into bioscience and biotechnology funding processes.
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
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
Fostering the Next Generation of Global Biosecurity Leaders
Visibility Initiative for Responsible Science (VIRS)
Establishing stronger norms and practices to prevent accidents, misuse, and other adverse outcomes of life science research
Reducing Risks at the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences
Strengthening AI governance to safeguard AI-enabled tools for engineering living systems from misuse.
Featured Experts
NTI offers solutions.
NTI | bio Proposes New Solutions to Prevent Bioweapons Development and Use
During the fifth session of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Working Group meetings, NTI | bio presented solutions that could effectively reduce the risk of bioweapons development and use by states and other powerful actors.
NTI | bio Advances Responsible AI Biodesign Tool Development and Use
NTI | bio, CEPI Convene Inaugural Bio Funders Forum to Champion Responsible Innovation and Research Practices
Developing Guardrails for AI Biodesign Tools
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences
Benchtop DNA Synthesis Devices: Capabilities, Biosecurity Implications, and Governance
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