NTI Statement for White House Virtual Global COVID-19 Summit
NTI submitted a statement to the virtual COVID-19 Summit convened by President Biden, calling for bold, decisive action to stem the devastating impacts of COVID-19 globally.
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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Preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
The Global Health Security Index
A Spreading Plague: Lessons and Recommendations for Responding to a Deliberate Biological Event
Priorities for the Next President to Reduce Nuclear and Biological Threats
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
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.
Trust Across Borders: Responding to 2009 H1N1 Influenza in the Middle East
The positive impact of a Palestinian, Jordanian and Israeli disease surveillance network when faced with common infectious disease threats.