2021 Global Health Security Index Finds All Countries Remain Dangerously Unprepared for Future Epidemic and Pandemic Threats
Report calls on national and global leaders to sustain and expand upon preparedness capacities developed to fight COVID-19
COVID-19
COVID-19 has vividly demonstrated the risk of a catastrophic biological event. This 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.
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NTI Statement for White House Virtual Global COVID-19 Summit
2021 GHS Index: Advancing Collective Action and Accountability Amid Global Crisis
Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats
Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
A Spreading Plague: Lessons and Recommendations for Responding to a Deliberate Biological Event
Projects
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.
Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Preventing global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRS)
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
News & Analysis
2021 GHS Index: Advancing Collective Action and Accountability Amid Global Crisis
Despite significant steps taken by countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, all countries remain dangerously unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats.
COVID-19: Identifying the Most Vulnerable Countries Using the GHS Index and Global Flight Data
To identify countries that are more vulnerable to the spread of an outbreak like COVID-19, the GHS Index team analyzed a subset of indicators within the GHS Index against global flight data.
The Global Health Security Index
The first comprehensive assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries.
Global Health Security Index
The first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries that make up the States Parties to the International Health Regulations.
Establishing a Theoretical Foundation for Measuring Global Health Security
The article examines academic literature to identify evidence, as well as practice-based indicators and proxies, for measuring health security at the country level.