Moving Ahead on the Global Health Security Agenda

Inglesby, Tom; Fischer, Julie E.

doi:10.1089/bsp.2014.3314

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“…Much of the international aid and program guidance is focused on highlevel attributes in broad categories. 13 This mode is useful for international stakeholders with public health programs with varied capacities who need a degree of latitude while developing and augmenting systems. The top-down approach of providing expertise, and the associated resources available during the 5-year international commitment to the GHSA, will almost certainly improve the status of international and local health security.…”

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Global Agenda, Local Health: Including Concepts of Health Security in Preparedness Programs at the Jurisdictional Level

Eby¹

2014

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, an

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The Global Health Security Agenda's objectives contain components that could help health departments address emerging public health challenges that threaten the population. As part of the agenda, partner countries with advanced public health systems will support the development of infrastructure in stakeholder health departments. To facilitate this process and augment local programs, state and local health departments may want to include concepts of health security in their public health preparedness offices in order to simultaneously build capacity. Health security programs developed by public health departments should complete projects that are closely aligned with the objectives outlined in the global agenda and that facilitate the completion of current preparedness grant requirements. This article identifies objectives and proposes tactical local projects that run parallel to the 9 primary objectives of the Global Health Security Agenda. Executing concurrent projects at the international and local levels in preparedness offices will accelerate the completion of these objectives and help prevent disease epidemics, detect health threats, and respond to public health emergencies. Additionally, future funding tied or related to health security may become more accessible to state and local health departments that have achieved these objectives.

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confidence: 99%

Global Agenda, Local Health: Including Concepts of Health Security in Preparedness Programs at the Jurisdictional Level

Eby¹

2014

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, an

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“…Second, gathering information together in one place does not automatically facilitate the extraction of relevant knowledge. Finally, the emergence of the Internet and a general trend towards digitizing legal information means that the legal information world of 2016 is quite different from that of 1946, when WHO adopted its Constitution, or even 1986, when the International Digest of Health Legislation was still being printed 31 . More and more national laws are being posted on the Internet, so that combining these in one database, though helpful, is a less needed service than it once was, and may become even less relevant in the future.…”

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“…For example, the International Development Law Organization has been working with WHO and others to build capacity in and promote greater understanding of public health law 37 . The Global Health Security Agenda is working to strengthen legal emergency preparedness at the national level 38 , 39 . A commission on global health and the law, sponsored by the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Washington, United States of America, a WHO collaborating centre on public health law and human rights, is writing recommendations for strengthening the field 39 , 40 .…”

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National public health law: a role for WHO in capacity-building and promoting transparency

Marks-Sultan

Tsai

Anderson

et al. 2016

Bull. World Health Organ.

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A robust health infrastructure in every country is the most effective long-term preparedness strategy for global health emergencies. This includes not only health systems and their human resources, but also countries’ legal infrastructure for health: the laws and policies that empower, obligate and sometimes limit government and private action. The law is also an important tool in health promotion and protection. Public health professionals play important roles in health law – from the development of policies, through their enforcement, to the scientific evaluation of the health impact of laws. Member States are already mandated to communicate their national health laws and regulations to the World Health Organization (WHO). In this paper we propose that WHO has the authority and credibility to support capacity-building in the area of health law within Member States, and to make national laws easier to access, understand, monitor and evaluate. We believe a strong case can be made to donors for the funding of a public health law centre or unit, that has adequate staffing, is robustly networked with its regional counterparts and is integrated into the main work of WHO. The mission of the unit or centre would be to define and integrate scientific and legal expertise in public health law, both technical and programmatic, across the work of WHO, and to conduct and facilitate global health policy surveillance.

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“…In addition to this, formation of a rapid response force with proper training and resources to manage a bio-threat catastrophe which includes public health managers, public safety and security providers (forensics, intelligence), law and policy makers working in close coordination with each other [17,18].…”

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Pakistans Bio-Preparedness With Regard To Biosecurity, Biodefense Strategies and Policy Measures

Tanveer¹

2015

J Bioterror Biodef

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Bioterror threats worldwide call for significant security measures such as legal reforms to ensure preparedness to the possible use of biological materials as deadly weapons. Pakistan as a terrorism stricken nation is already confronted with threats from various terrorist groups thus possibility of bio-terrorism in the country in near future cannot be denied. This review focuses on possible bio-threats to the country, existing policy frameworks by the government of Pakistan and national bodies or organizations working for the cause of biosecurity in the country. It also emphasizes the need to establish effective strategies related to bio-defense for country's preparedness to the threats posed by potential bio-weapons. The review concludes that in addition to development of strong bioresponse mechanisms, important steps must be taken in terms of bio-defense related R&D, capacity building and policy measures.

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Moving Ahead on the Global Health Security Agenda

Cited by 17 publications

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Global Agenda, Local Health: Including Concepts of Health Security in Preparedness Programs at the Jurisdictional Level

Global Agenda, Local Health: Including Concepts of Health Security in Preparedness Programs at the Jurisdictional Level

National public health law: a role for WHO in capacity-building and promoting transparency

Pakistans Bio-Preparedness With Regard To Biosecurity, Biodefense Strategies and Policy Measures

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