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The world’s first Pandemic Agreement, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May, is a historic step toward building resilient systems to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemic and pandemic threats and save millions of lives. At the same time, many countries—particularly low- and middle-income nations—face significant political and technical hurdles in ratifying and implementing the agreement.
This webinar explores practical strategies and opportunities for nations to close critical data and preparedness gaps, including by using tools such as the Global Health Security Index and the Africa Health Security Index to guide efforts to build stronger global health security and a world safer from future biological threats.
Join hosts NTI, Brown University Pandemic Center, Economist Impact, and Science for Africa Foundation for this important discussion.
The world’s first Pandemic Agreement, adopted by the World Health Assembly in May, is a historic step toward building resilient systems to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemic and pandemic threats and save millions of lives. At the same time, many countries—particularly low- and middle-income nations—face significant political and technical hurdles in ratifying and implementing the agreement.
This webinar explores practical strategies and opportunities for nations to close critical data and preparedness gaps, including by using tools such as the Global Health Security Index and the Africa Health Security Index to guide efforts to build stronger global health security and a world safer from future biological threats.
Join hosts NTI, Brown University Pandemic Center, Economist Impact, and Science for Africa Foundation for this important discussion.







![2019 Global Health Security Index
The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries that make up the States Parties to the International Health Regulations (IHR [2005]).
The GHS Index is a project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) and was developed with The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). These organizations believe that, over time, the GHS Index will spur measurable changes in national health security and improve international capability to address one of the world’s most omnipresent risks: infectious disease outbreaks that can lead to international epidemics and pandemics. 2019 Global Health Security Index](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xBk8zAO1Vlk/mqdefault.jpg)


