Global Health Security Agenda

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Formation	February 2014
Founder	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Interests	Antimicrobial Resistance,vaccines,Biosecurity
Membership	Aga Khan University,Amazon Web Services,American Association for Laboratory Animal Science,American Public Health Association,Association of Public Health Laboratories,BD (company),Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,Biotechnology Innovation Organization,Boston University,CDC Foundation,Center for Naval Analysis,Center for Strategic and International Studies,Columbia University,Consortium of Universities for Global Health,Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists,CRDF Global,Dartmouth College,Drexel University,EcoHealth Alliance,Emergent BioSolutions,Esri,FHI 360,Galveston National Laboratory,General Electric,Geneva Centre for Security Policy,George Mason University,Georgetown University,Georgia Institute of Technology,Global Biorisk Advisory Council,Global Health Council,Global Virus Network,Green Cross International,Henry Schein,Howard University,Infectious Diseases Society of America,International Medical Corps,International Rescue Committee,Jane Goodall Institute,Jhpiego,Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security,Johns Hopkins University,JSI Research & Training Institute,Lady Reading Hospital Medical Training Institute,Management Sciences for Health,Massey University,McGill University,Medical College of Georgia,MRI Global,National Association of County and City Health Officials, National Academies,National Academy of Sciences,National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories,National Institute of Health (Pakistan),Nuclear Threat Initiative,Palladium International,PATH,Project HOPE,Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases,RAND Corporation,Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Foundation,RTI International,Save the Children,Smithsonian Institution,Tableau Foundation,Texas A&M University,University of Minnesota,Afghanistan,Germany,Mongolia,Switzerland,Argentina,Ghana,Namibia,Thailand,Australia,Guinea,Netherlands,Togo,Azerbaijan,Guinea-Bissau,Nigeria,Turkey,Bangladesh,Haiti,Norway,Tanzania,Burkina Faso,India,Pakistan,Uganda,Cameroon ,Indonesia,Peru,Ukraine,Canada,Israel,Philippines,United Arab Emirates,Chile,Italy,Portugal,United Kingdom,China,Japan,Republic of the Congo,United States of America,Colombia,Jordan,Republic of Korea,Viet Nam,Côte d’Ivoire,Kenya,Rwanda,Yemen,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Lao People's Democratic Republic,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,Zimbabwe,Denmark,Liberia,Senegal,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,Ethiopia,Madagascar,Sierra Leone,Global Health Security Consortium,El Salvador,Malaysia,Singapore,World Organization for Animal Health,Finland,Malawi,South Africa,Private Sector Round Table,France,Mali,Spain,World Bank,Gambia,Mexico,Sweden,World Health Organization,Georgia,Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention,Asia-Europe Foundation,Caribbean Public Health Agency,Southeast Asia One Health University Network,Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance,International Development Law Organization
To "prepare" countries to prevent, detect, and respond to a "public health emergency".

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is an international effort operating in the field of infection prevention and control.

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Slide from Gerald Parker's 2018 lecture at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on the military and "Health Security"

Own words

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is a group of more than 70 countries, international organizations and non-government organizations, and private sector companies that have come together to achieve the vision of a world safe and secure from global health threats posed by infectious diseases.

• In the context of public health emergencies, legal preparedness is the capability to map, develop, refine, and utilize legal instruments across sectors that enable the implementation of capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. This involves identification of legal approaches that can promote (or hinder) an effective response to a public health event and the strategic development and refinement of legal instruments to facilitate the implementation of capacities needed for strong health systems.

• Support antimicrobial resistance efforts in the political space, including by keeping AMR on the agenda at the highest political levels at multiple fora and across sectors.

• The continuing emergence of newly discovered pathogens and of previously undetected infectious diseases highlights the necessity of sustainable national laboratory systems and networks for the detection, identification and characterization of unusual organisms with pandemic potential or regional consequence.

• Strengthen foundational indicator (syndromic) and event-based surveillance systems to be able to detect events of significance for public health (animal, human, environment) and health security. Improve communication and collaboration across sectors and between sub-national, national, regional and global levels of authority regarding surveillance of events of public health significance.

• Strengthen sustainable public health institutions, structures and systems to support functions of epidemiology. Expand regional and national networks to promote collaboration and maximize efficient and sustainable uses of available resources. Expedite building field epidemiology capacity under Public vs Human One Health approach. Enhance and promote utilizing public health information for evidence-based decision making and resource mobilization at regional and national levels.

• Aims to support its members to develop and strengthen their capacity and capability to prepare for, prevent, detect, and respond to zoonotic disease threats, using a One Health approach.

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