Global Health Security Agenda

Question 1

GHSA

Answer 1

Global partnership, involving 50 countries, international organizations and civil society

• accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from threat of infectious disease
• elevate global attention to the shared risks posed by infectious diseases

Question 2

GHSA framework

Answer 2

• prevent avoidable epidemics
• detect threats early
• respond rapidly and effectively

Question 3

EPT 2

Answer 3

Address continued threat and drivers of emerging and re-emerging diseases under the overall program of GHSA
- builds on EPT 1 by strengthening prevention, detection and response related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases

Question 4

EPT 2 goal

Answer 4

Prevent, detect, and control emerging infectious diseases at their source

Question 5

GHS agenda

Answer 5

Accelerate progress towards making the world safe from the threat of infectious diseases

Question 6

Stages of GHSA and EPT2

Answer 6

• 1: pre emergence: microbes transmitted among animal reservoirs
• 2: localized emergence: limited spillover events or large scale spillover
• 3: pandemic: sustained human to human transmission

Question 7

EPT-2 strategic areas of focus

Answer 7

• develop longitudinal data sets to understand biological drivers of disease
• understand human behaviors that underlie risk of spillover, amplification and spread
• promote policies and practices to reduce risk of emergence
• support One Health
• infest in One Health workforce
• strengthen national preparedness
• strengthen global networks for real time biosurveillance

Question 8

Opportunities for Mississippi State engagement

Answer 8

• AMR research to support capacity gaps across the region
• summer school program with Makerere University
• international summer research program with joint advisorship with FAO
• MSU/FAO to support FAOs global aquaculture