<i>China CDC Weekly </i>— A Step Forward for China’s Public Health System and for Global Health Security

Abstract Background Member States lack of compliance with 2005 IHR implementation led to the launched of the Global Health Security Agenda. This research will provide an understanding of how the Global Health Security Agenda Steering Group (GHSA SG) governance interventions impact health system performance and global health security. This will enhance the understanding of a Steering Group's governance interventions in complex Global Health initiatives. Research questions: To what extent have GHSA SG governance interventions contributed towards enabling health system performance of WHO Member States? To what extent have GHSA SG governance interventions contributed towards the implementation of global health security among WHO Member States? Methods Correlational analysis using Spearman's rho examined the relationship between governance, health system performance and global health security variables at one point in time. A convenience non-probability sample consisting of eight WHO Member States was used. SPSS Statistics generated the bivariate correlation analyzes. Results Governance and health system performance analysis indicated a statistically significant strong positive effect size in 11 out of 18 and moderate positive effect size in the remaining seven out of 18 health system performance indicators. Governance and global health security analysis concluded three of the governance indicators had strong and moderate positive coefficients. Global health security variables demonstrated weak effects in the remaining three governance indicators. Conclusions This study presents a case for health systems embedding in global health security. Health system performance is only as effective at protecting populations when countries achieve core capacities of preparedness and response to global health threats. The associations provide stakeholders information about key characteristics of governance that influence health system performance and global health security implementation. Key messages This study provides an argument for the continued support of the GHSA 2024 Framework with implementation of global health security capabilities and meeting 2005 IHR requirements. The GHSA SG governance role remains profoundly important in establishing sustainable efforts internationally towards achieving the objectives of the GHSA in support of the 2005 IHR standards.

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Assessing National Public Health Law to Prevent Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Immunization Law as a Basis for Global Health Security

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1177/1073110519876174 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 412-426 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tsion Berhane Ghedamu ◽

Benjamin Mason Meier

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Infectious Disease ◽

Global Health ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Disease Outbreaks ◽

Health Law ◽

Global Health Security ◽

Public Health Law ◽

Health Security ◽

National Immunization

Immunization plays a crucial role in global health security, preventing public health emergencies of international concern and protecting individuals from infectious disease outbreaks, yet these critical public health benefits are dependent on immunization law. Where public health law has become central to preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease, public health law reform is seen as necessary to implement the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). This article examines national immunization laws as a basis to implement the GHSA and promote the public's health, analyzing the scope and content of these laws to prevent infectious disease across Sub-Saharan Africa. Undertaking policy surveillance of national immunization laws in 20 Sub-Saharan African countries, this study: (1) developed a legal framework to map the legal attributes relevant to immunization; (2) created an assessment tool to determine the presence of these attributes under national immunization law; and (3) applied this assessment tool to code national legal landscapes. An analysis of these coded laws highlights legal attributes that govern vaccine requirements, supply chains, vaccine administration standards, and medicines quality and manufacturer liability. Based upon this international policy surveillance, it will be crucial to undertake legal epidemiology research across countries, examining the influence of immunization law on vaccination rates and disease outbreaks.

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Field Epidemiology Training Programs to accelerate public health workforce development and global health security

International Journal of Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1016/j.ijid.2021.08.021 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rebecca Martin ◽

Ibrahima Soce Fall

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Global Health ◽

Workforce Development ◽

Health Workforce ◽

Training Programs ◽

Public Health Workforce ◽

Global Health Security ◽

Health Security ◽

Field Epidemiology ◽

Health Workforce Development

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Correction: Global health security: where is the data to inform health system strengthening?

BMJ Global Health ◽

10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000481corr1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. e000481corr1

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Health System ◽

Health System Strengthening ◽

Global Health Security ◽

Health Security

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Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic: sustainability is an indispensable condition of Global Health Security

Ambiente & sociedade ◽

10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200108vu2020l3id ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

Author(s):

Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura ◽

Gabriela Marques di Giulio ◽

Danielle Hanna Rached

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Global Health ◽

Universal Access ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Global Health Security ◽

Health Security ◽

Health Authorities ◽

Multiple Dimensions ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The One

Abstract Among the possible developments of the Covid-19 pandemic at the international and national levels is the advancement of the Global Health Security (GHS) agenda. On the one hand, GHS might be able to give priority to health problems on the political agenda-setting, on the other, however, it might open up space for public security actors in decision-making processes to the detriment of the power of health authorities. This article critically analyzes the concept and the progress of the GHS agenda seeking to demonstrate that there can be no security in matters of public health when sustainability in its multiple dimensions is not taken into account. At the end, sustainability has a twofold responsibility: to maintain the consistency and permanence of emergency response actions, especially with investments in public health systems, with universal access, and to minimize the structural causes of pandemics linked to the environment.

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Rethinking the Infodemic: Global Health Security and Information Disorder

Mezinárodní vztahy ◽

10.32422/mv-cjir.1817 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 56 (4) ◽

pp. 77-90

Author(s):

Dagmar Rychnovská

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Global Health ◽

Health Information ◽

Information Management ◽

Global Scale ◽

Global Politics ◽

Global Health Security ◽

Health Governance ◽

Health Security ◽

Public Health Information

The discourse on the infodemic constructs the combination of the pandemic and disinformation as a new source of insecurity on a global scale. How can we make sense – analytically and politically– of this newly politicized nexus of public health, information management, and global security? This article proposes approaching the phenomenon of the infodemic as an intersecting securitization of information disorder and health governance. Specifically, it argues that there are two distinct frames of security mobilized in the context of infodemic governance: information as a disease and information as a weapon. Drawing on literatures on global health and the emerging research on disinformation, the paper situates the two framings of the infodemic in broader discourses on the medicalization of security, and securitization of information disorder, respectively. The article critically reflects on each framing and offers some preliminary thoughts on how to approach the entanglements of health, security, and information disorder in contemporary global politics.

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