How did COVID-19 Affect the Development of the 2021 GHS Index?
The world will be assessing the factors that contributed to the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic for years to come. GHS Index team members took stock of the current information and thinking about...
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Bigger than COVID-19: Preparedness for Globally Catastrophic Biological Events
Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBRs) refer to biological risks of unprecedented scale, with devastating outcomes that are orders of magnitude greater than what the world has witnessed with the...
View ArticleLearning from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nearly two years after the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, some lessons from the pandemic are clear: Countries’ ability to...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the GHS Index
Although the GHS Index measures capacities and identifies preparedness gaps, it cannot predict how leaders will use national assets when a crisis occurs. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that some of the...
View Article2021 Global Health Security Index Finds All Countries Remain Dangerously...
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...
View ArticleGHS Index Experts publish COVID-19 Analysis in BMJ
Two years after publication of the inaugural edition of the Global Health Security Index, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between excess mortality...
View ArticleWILMOT JAMES: Trust in government and leaders is earned the hard way and over...
[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...
View ArticleBehind the Scores: Spotlight on Countries with Improved Capabilities
While the 2021 Global Health Security Index reported that all countries remain dangerously vulnerable to future biological threats, it also showed marked improvements in preparedness in recent years...
View ArticleThe GHS Index Toolkit: What the GHS Index Is and How to Use It
The Global Health Security (GHS) Index, developed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security with Economist Impact, was first launched in October 2019 followed by...
View ArticleGHS Index Instrumental in Study Determining Pandemic Preparedness Linked to...
A study published in BMJ Global Health in July 2023 by researchers from the Brown University School of Public Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)...
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