Where We Work

The United States works with countries around the world to address health security gaps and strengthen capacity to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from health security threats. 

As part of that work, the United States has established 50 formal Global Health Security (GHS) partnerships with countries and one regional group to strengthen capacity in areas critical to each country with a goal of achieving “Demonstrated Capacity” or comparable level (depending on country context) in at least five technical as measured by relevant health security assessments, such as those conducted within the World Health Organization (WHO) IHR Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.  

Through these 50+ formal partnerships, the United States is realizing the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitments articulated in the  U.S. National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan for Countering Biological Threats, Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness, and Achieving Global Health Security and the 2024 U.S. Global Health Security Strategy (GHSS).  

Additional Global Health Security (GHS) Capacity Building: In addition to these more structured GHS partnerships, federal departments and agencies support more targeted bilateral GHS efforts in an additional 12 countries.

Collectively, these formal GHS partnerships and additional GHS capacity building efforts contribute towards global commitments, including through the G7 and Global Health Security Agenda target, to collectively support 100 countries in implementing the core capacities required in the International Health Regulations (IHR).