Elizabeth Cameron

TL;DR: This Viewpoint attempts to reconcile the US’s high 2019 preparedness ranking on the Global Health Security Index, an international framework for benchmarking heared.

TL;DR: The practical value of the GHS Index is described and potential use cases to help policymakers and practitioners maximise the utility of the tool are presented, as well as describing the robust methodology underpinning country scores and ranks.

TL;DR: This review conducted a scoping review of English-language scholarly and gray literature to identify evidence- and practice-based indicators and proxies for measuring health security at the country level over time and synthesized four foundational principles for measuring global health security.

TL;DR: The United States and international community should launch high-level political mobilization, with diplomatic, human, and economic resources, to improve the safety and effectiveness of epidemic response operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

TL;DR: This work believes a capability for detecting whether an organism involved in a human-caused biological event has been genetically modified and, if modified, to infer from its genetic sequence its likely lab of origin could be developed into powerful forensic tools to aid the attribution of outbreaks caused by genetically engineered pathogens.