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https://www.ghsindex.org/

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

The 140 GHS Index questions are organized across six categories:

• Prevention: Prevention of the emergence or release of pathogens
• Detection and Reporting: Early detection and reporting for epidemics of potential international concern
• Rapid Response: Rapid response to and mitigation of the spread of an epidemic
• Health System: Sufficient and robust health system to treat the sick and protect health workers
• Compliance with International Norms: Commitments to improving national capacity, financing plans to address gaps, and adhering to global norms
• Risk Environment: Overall risk environment and country vulnerability to biological threats