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Event 201 - 18 October 2019.

24 Oct 2019: KFF: WaPo: No Country Fully Prepared For Major Disease Outbreak, New Global Health Security Index Shows
CIDRAP News: Inaugural Global Health Security Index notes wide readiness gaps
“At a briefing in Washington, D.C., [Thursday], experts from three health groups unveiled a new Global Health Security (GHS) Index, which provides preparedness benchmarks for 195 countries and is designed to help nations fill gaps in their capacity to address infectious disease outbreaks. The initial report found that no country is fully prepared to handle a major epidemic or pandemic. The index is a joint project of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS), the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)…” (Schnirring, 10/24).

Washington Post: None of these 195 countries — the U.S. included — is fully prepared for a pandemic, report says
https://www.kff.org/news-summary/no-country-fully-prepared-for-major-disease-outbreak-new-global-health-security-index-shows/

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy:

24 Oct: CIDRAP: Inaugural Global Health Security Index notes wide readiness gaps
The index is a joint project of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS), the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, associate professor at the Bloomberg School and senior scholar at the CHS, said in a news release from the group, “Knowing that there is work to do, countries can use the index to identify gaps, build preparedness and best practices, and track progress over time.”...
The GHS Index took two and a half years to complete and involved data collection by 110 EIU researchers, a pilot program to test the framework, and a panel of 21 experts to review the work.

The project was supported by the Open Philanthropy Project, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Robertson Foundation.

Tom Inglesby (PROMINENT AT EVENT 201), MD, CHS director, said infectious disease outbreaks—whether natural, accidental, or deliberate—are a significant threat to health, peace, and prosperity, unless countries are adequately prepared...
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/10/inaugural-global-health-security-index-notes-wide-readiness-gaps

Wikipedia: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Before 2017, CHS was heavily reliant on government funding.
In January 2017, the Open Philanthropy Project awarded a $16 million grant over three years to the Center for Health Security...

Event 201
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic tabletop exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_Center_for_Health_Security

Wikipedia: Open Philanthropy
Founded June 2017
Founders:
Holden Karnofsky
Dustin Moskovitz (co-founded Facebook with Zuckerberg)
Cari Tuna (Moskovitz’s wife)
As of August 2019, Open Philanthropy has made around 650 grants to over 370 unique organizations, disbursing a total of $857 million. Notable grantees include Deworm the World Initiative ($69.5m), the Malaria Consortium ($59.5m), the Center for Security and Emerging Technology ($55m), GiveDirectly ($54.8m), the Against Malaria Foundation ($49.2m), OpenAI ($30m), the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative ($23.5m) the ***Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ($18.9m), Sherlock Biosciences ($17.5m), The Humane League ($17.3m), Helen Keller International ($13.7m), the Nuclear Threat Initiative ($11.9m), the Future of Humanity Institute ($12m), the Centre for Effective Altruism ($12.9m), and 80000 Hours ($6.4m).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Philanthropy_(organization)

Wikipedia: Dustin Moskovitz
For the 2016 United States Presidential election, Moskovitz announced that he and his wife would donate $20 million to support Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee, arguing that the dangers of a Donald Trump presidency are significant, and that they were making their donation despite being skeptical of allowing large donors to influence election cycles through money. The New York Times quoted Moskovitz’s blog post on the subject: “The Republican Party, and Donald Trump in particular, is running on a zero-sum vision, stressing a false contest between their constituency and the rest of the world.” This made him the third-largest donor in the 2016 campaigns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz