GRF · Health and Biosecurity Governance
Mandate, publisher and status
Health and Biosecurity Governance is a specialist platform of Global Risks Forum (GRF), at its canonical address. Its subject is the governance of health security: the institutions, laws and cooperation arrangements through which countries and communities prevent, prepare for and respond to health threats, including biological risks, and the exercises that test them. It issues no health guidance and assesses no country's compliance with international health rules. This page sets out who publishes it, its mandate, the professional status of those who take part and the limits on its role.
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Mandate, publisher and status in six parts.
Governance of health security across borders.
The platform's thesis is health security, pandemic cooperation, One Health and biosafety institutions across borders.
Institutions and arrangements
Comparison of how health security institutions are organised, mandated and held accountable.
Ethics and law
Ethical and legal analysis of preparedness, response, data sharing and biological risk oversight.
Preparedness coordination
Dialogues that help institutions coordinate before a crisis, recorded and published.
Health security as a whole-of-government task.
Health and Biosecurity Governance is the specialist community, for the institutions that implement the International Health Regulations and prepare for the Pandemic Agreement: health ministries, National IHR Authorities, border, agriculture and veterinary agencies, and regional health bodies. It addresses capacity, coordination and oversight only, and publishes no technical detail on biological agents.
Who is responsible.
GRF publishes the platform and answers for what appears on it. GRF is a Swiss association with a public-good, not-for-profit purpose, and one of the three pillar institutions of the Nexus Consortium, with The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) and Global Risks Alliance (GRA).
The platform exists separately because health governance professionals form an audience distinct from clinical and bioengineering research, which sits with GCRI. Health and Biosecurity Governance is an established platform. Its pages set out its scope and how it is designed to work, and its dialogues, records and outputs are published here as each one opens. Information and enquiries are open today. Contributors take part in their professional capacity and do not represent GRF.
What the platform does not do.
- It does not issue public health guidance, declare emergencies or speak for any national or international health authority.
- It does not regulate, license, inspect or certify laboratories, products, facilities or professionals.
- It does not finance, procure or allocate vaccines, medicines or other countermeasures.
- It does not publish information that could enable misuse of biological agents.
- Hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings, and a dialogue record is not a decision of any authority.
Health decisions remain with the competent national and international authorities; see decision-rights context.
Where the platform sits.
The platform belongs to the health and biosecurity field. Its science counterparts are Health Nexus and Biotechnology and Biosecurity at GCRI, and its finance counterpart is Insurance Nexus at GRA. Read discipline and institutional issues for the field.
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
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Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
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