Global Health Security Alliance (GloHSA)

Challenges Facing Global Health Networks: The NCD Alliance Experience; Comment on “Four Challenges that Global Health Networks Face”

Successful prevention and control of the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cannot be achieved by the health sector alone: a wide range of organisations from multiple sectors and across government must also be involved. This requires a new, inclusive approach to advocacy and to coordinating, convening and catalysing action across civil society, best achieved by a broad-based network. T...

The global alliance for genomics & health.

The Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH) held its first partner meeting in March 2014 in London. Now numbering more than 176 organizations from 25 countries, the GA4GH is working to make it possible to share genomes responsibly. Harold Varmus, Director of the National Cancer Institute, began the meeting by asking a deceptively simple question, ‘‘Are we really ready to share data?’’ Alt...

Global Public Health Security

The framework of the newly revised International Health Regulations is a key driver in the effort to strengthen global public health security. Unanimously agreed upon by the World Health Assembly on May 23, 2005, the regulations are the result of experience gained and lessons learned during the past 30 years. This global legal framework includes a commitment from the World Health Organization (...

Improving global health, strengthening global security.

Global Health Security in an Era of Global Health Threats

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