Global Health Security Agenda
What is the Global Health Security Agenda?
The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is a collaborative, multisectoral network to enhance global health security and accelerate implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) and other relevant frameworks by strengthening country capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks
ILaunched in 2014 with 14 founding members, GHSA has grown to include more than 70 countries, nongovernmental organizations, and private sector actors. GHSA has sought to spur progress and multisectoral coordination needed to enhance countries’ capacities, aiming to elevate global health security to a national leader-level priority; foster multisectoral engagement and collaboration; and strive towards achieving common measurable targets. GHSA’s success and the growing global need for multisectoral and technical collaborations to support country-level capacity building and enhance global health security spurred members to extend GHSA in 2019 through 2024, and now for a third phase from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2028. Visit the ‘Progress to Target‘ page for more on the progress that countries have made toward meeting the overarching target.
Vision
Our vision is a world that is safer and more secure from global health threats posed by infectious diseases – one where we can prevent or mitigate the impact of naturally occurring outbreaks and accidental or intentional releases of dangerous pathogens, rapidly detect and transparently report outbreaks when they occur, and employ an interconnected global network that can respond effectively to limit the spread of infectious disease outbreaks in humans and animals, mitigate human suffering and the loss of human life, and reduce economic impact.
Global health security is a shared responsibility that cannot be achieved be a single actor or sector of government. Its success depends upon collaboration among the health, security, environmental and agricultural sectors. GHSA acknowledges the essential need for a multilateral and multi-sectoral approach to strengthen both the global capacity and nations’ capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious threats.
Key Objectives
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Enhance & Detect
Enhance country capacities to prevent, detect and respond to infectious diseases
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Global Health Security
Emphasize global health security as a national leader-level priority and galvanize high-level commitments to global health security
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Engagement and Collaboration
Promote multi-sectoral engagement and collaboration
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Measurable Targets
Focus on common, measurable targets