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A research agenda for urban health security

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
We outline ten key themes for strengthening health security in urban environments, allowing cities to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from health threats.

7-1-7: rapid improvement for early disease detection and response

7-1-7 Alliance
An introduction to the 7-1-7 target, its uses, and how it complements existing tools and assessments.

7-1-7 for Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation

7-1-7 Alliance

Advocacy as easy as 7-1-7

7-1-7 Alliance

Continuous improvement with 7-1-7

7-1-7 Alliance

Why 7-1-7? The evidence behind the global target for containing epidemic threat

7-1-7 Alliance

Overview of the 7-1-7 Alliance

7-1-7 Alliance

Protéger le Personnel de Santé: Il est Urgent D’agir

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Guide D’action de Plaidoyer: Un Référentiel Pour Les Campagnes De Plaidoyer Stratégiques

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

Advocacy Action Guide: A ToolKit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns

Resolve to Save Lives

Public Health Media Advocacy Action Guide: Elements Of A Media Advocacy Campaign

Resolve to Save Lives

A ToolKit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns: Concluding Your Campaign: A Checklist

Resolve to Save Lives

Plaidoyer – Guide d’action. Outils Pour Des Campagnes De Plaidoyer Stratégiques.

Global Health Advocacy Incubator

A ToolKit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns Strategic Planning: Talking with Policy-Makers

Resolve to Save Lives

A ToolKit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns Strategic Planning: How-to Guide

Resolve to Save Lives

A ToolKit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns Strong Partnership Coordination: A 5-Step Process

Resolve to Save Lives

Elements Of A Media Advocacy Campaign: What You Need to Know

Resolve to Save Lives

A ToolKit for Strategic Policy Advocacy Campaigns: Elements of a Policy Advocacy Campaign

Prevent Epidemics
The amended international health regulations: Implications and challenges for domestic legal frameworks

The amended international health regulations: Implications and challenges for domestic legal frameworks

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
The May 2024 updates to WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR) can drive national legal reforms, establish a coordinating authority, and boost local capacities to improve global health security.
Infographic showing the cost of different aspects of health care worker infections

The true cost of failing to protect health care workers

The World Bank, Resolve to Save Lives
A landmark study from the World Bank and Resolve to Save Lives that measures the broader socio-economic costs of health care worker infections and deaths from COVID-19
Safer primary healthcare facilities are needed to protect healthcare workers and maintain essential services: lessons learned from a multicountry COVID-19 emergency response initiative

Safer primary healthcare facilities are needed to protect healthcare workers and maintain essential services: lessons learned from a multicountry COVID-19 emergency response initiative

BMJ Global Health
An infection prevention and control initiative improved COVID-19 infection rates for health care workers in Africa, but challenges showed the need for long-term investments in sustainable IPC programs
From lionizing to protecting health care workers during and after COVID‐19—systems solutions for human tragedies

From lionizing to protecting health care workers during and after COVID‐19—systems solutions for human tragedies

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
We make the case for expanding health care worker protections, including infection prevention and control measures, water, sanitation and hygiene programs, and expanded training opportunities.
Development of a simple and effective online training for health workers: results from a pilot in Nigeria

Development of a simple and effective online training for health workers: results from a pilot in Nigeria

BMC Public Health
How can we keep health care workers up-to-speed and prepared to respond to emerging health threats? For BMC Public Health, we demonstrate the power of self-paced, mobile-friendly training.

Protecting Health Care Workers: A Need for Urgent Action

Resolve to Save Lives

COVID-19 Risk Alert Levels

Resolve to Save Lives
Assessing and reducing risk to health care workers in outbreaks

Assessing and reducing risk to health care workers in outbreaks

Health Security
The 2014-2016 West African Ebola Epidemic exposed a critical weakness in global health security: inadequate protections for health care workers put all our lives at risk. Here’s what we do to fix it.
Addressing the challenges of implementing evidence-based prioritisation in global health

Addressing the challenges of implementing evidence-based prioritisation in global health

BMJ Global Health
How can global health do better? In a roundtable with health practitioners, funders, academics, and policy-makers, we identify 7 key areas for improving equity in global health—with evidence.