[The following article was published as an op-ed by Wilmot James in Business Day (South Africa) on March 16, 2022.] To keep and build on the levels of citizen confidence, governments must respond nimbly, sensibly and effectively in pandemic risk management. Trust matters in organising the activities, business and…
Report calls on national and global leaders to sustain and expand upon preparedness capacities developed to fight COVID-19 WASHINGTON, DC (December 8, 2021) — Despite important steps taken by countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, all countries—across all income levels—remain dangerously unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats,…
A leading biochemist and top health advisor to New Zealand’s government says the 2019 Global Health Security (GHS) Index was key to the country’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Siouxsie Wiles, a renowned infectious disease expert and advisor to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, told the Winnipeg Free Press that the report…
On May 12th, the Initiative for Global Security, the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative collaborated for a virtual discussion about using the GHS Index as a decision-making tool for Latin American audiences. The webinar, which was broadcast live in English, Spanish, and Portuguese,…
In preparation for the Fall 2021 launch of the second Global Health Security (GHS) Index, members of the GHS Index International Panel of Experts are reviewing the index framework, discussing indicator weighting strategies, and assessing how the 2019 GHS Index…
An October 2020 commentary in The BMJ highlights the value of the Global Health Security (GHS) Index as a practical tool that can help inform global policy makers and practitioners. “The value proposition of the Global Health Security Index” was authored by members of the GHS Index project team at…
The Global Health Security (GHS) Index website has been recognized with awards for its creativity and digital excellence from leading communicators and creative professionals. Launched in October 2019, the website houses the GHS Index report and presents its complex data in unique, interactive models to help communicate the information to a…
Global Health Security (GHS) Index report authors Jennifer Nuzzo, Jessica Bell, and Beth Cameron address the United States’ inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of its top rank in the GHS Index in a new article for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The article,…
United Nations should call heads-of-state summit on catastrophic biological risks by 2021 WASHINGTON, DC — National health security is fundamentally weak around the world, and no country is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic, according to the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities…
To develop the Global Health Security (GHS) Index, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) convened an international panel of 21 experts from 13 countries across every region of the globe. As the GHS Index team worked to…