The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was launched in February 13, 2014 in response to “the global threat that infectious diseases constitute in our increasingly interconnected world”. United States joined 28 other countries, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), to accelerate progress toward a world safe and secure from the threat of infectious disease, and committing to the goals of the Global Health Security Agenda.
The pledge “means working together to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance, reducing zoonotic disease transmission, establishing national biosecurity systems, increasing routine immunization, strengthening national infectious disease surveillance and laboratory systems, and developing real-time electronic reporting systems and emergency operations centers.”
By 2022 GHSA is a network of 70 countries, as well as international and non-government organizations, and private sector companies, “working to secure global health security”. [1]