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The Global Health Security Index is an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
The Global Health Security Initiative ( GHSI) is an informal international partnership among countries in order to exchange information and coordinate practices for confronting new threats and risks to global health. It was formed to respond to threats of biological, chemical, or radio-nuclear terrorism ( CBRN ), with pandemic influenza added ...
The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is an international effort operating in the field of infection prevention and control. [1] [2] A brainchild of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it was launched in February 2014 by a group of 44 countries [3] and organizations including WHO. [4] It was launched in 2014 as a five-year multilateral effort with the purpose to accelerate ...
Health security is a concept that encompasses activities and measures across sovereign boundaries that mitigates public health incidents to ensure the health of populations. [1] It is an evolving paradigm within the fields of international relations and security studies. [2] Proponents of health security posit that all states have a responsibility to protect the health and wellbeing of their ...
Global Health Initiatives. Global Health Initiatives ( GHIs) are humanitarian initiatives that raise and disburse additional funds for infectious diseases – such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria – for immunizations and for strengthening health systems in developing countries. GHIs classify a type of global initiative, which is defined as ...
Western Pacific; HQ: Manila, Philippines. A public health emergency of international concern ( PHEIC / feɪk / FAYK) is a formal declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially ...
The Global Center on Cooperative Security is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit research and policy institute based in New York, Washington D.C., London, Brussels, and Nairobi. The Global Center works to improve multilateral security cooperation through policy research and issue-area projects throughout the world.
Health Systems Global is a membership-based society that convenes researchers, policymakers and implementers from around the world to develop the field of health systems research. [1] It emerged from a growing need to focus on the health systems performance in low- and middle-income countries.