Countries develop and maintain capacities across sectors to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies, using information based on evidence for IHR and effective global health security. Systematic assessments of all-hazard, multisectoral country health emergency preparedness capacities by analyzing IHR and health security data provides powerful insight into the critical gaps and priorities of a country and can guide crucial policy and strategic decisions.

What does this mean in practice?

“COVID-19 is not just a global health emergency, it is a vivid demonstration of the fact that there is no health security without resilient health systems, or without addressing the social, economic, commercial and environmental determinants of health.” Director General of WHO (73rd WHA)

Identification, documentation, and dissemination of best practices helps institutionalization, promoting, and scaling up successes across countries and it supports investment cases. The two strategic thrusts of the Evidence and Analytics for Health Security (EHS) unit are: 

1. Analyzing and disseminating comprehensive and authoritative information for decision making
2. Building an evidence base for investments in emergency preparedness, IHR and Health Systems for Health Security.

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"Providing evidence for action and investment in the IHR and Health Security"