Global Health Security Index

Global Health Security Index was released by Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. It was developed with Economist Impact. It is a comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across the 195 countries that are the states Parties to International Health Regulations of WHO.

Global Findings

• The world is acutely vulnerable to health emergencies in the future as close to 73% of countries did not have the ability to provide faster approvals for medical countermeasures, such as vaccines and antiviral drugs, during a public health emergency.
• Almost 79% of countries had not allocated ....