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,…
Amid the threat posed by COVID-19 the Global Health Security (GHS) Index has been used repeatedly as a reference for global preparedness during the pandemic. This is a key goal of the GHS Index, and the COVID-19 pandemic has become a proof point for its main finding: national health security is…
The Global Health Security (GHS) Index1 demonstrates that the world is not prepared for epidemics and pandemics. 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 data2. This…
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…