The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
How researchers, practitioners and institutions take part in Health Nexus, and what taking part does and does not mean.
Health · Participation paths
| Health supply chain WG | 25 | 6 | Week 6 | Chair needed |
| Hospital continuity WG | 34 | 4 | Week 20 | Chair needed |
| Surveillance WG | 34 | 7 | Week 26 | Chair needed |
| Health equity WG | 38 | 11 | Week 7 | Chair needed |
| One Health WG | 39 | 2 | Week 11 | Active |
Health Nexus · Community workspaceCommunity workspace, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
Taking part in Health Nexus is open to public health, hospitals and clinicians and to institutions and national programmes working on health and biosecurity. Experts contribute knowledge, review or data; institutions follow the GCRI participation routes; countries go through the Consortium Secretariat. An enquiry receives a reference and creates no membership, role or influence over findings.
Fig.The path from an enquiry to a credited contribution. Design, not a record; no step creates membership.
For participation paths, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, true-colour imagery and night lights with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on Africa; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.
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For participation paths, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, true-colour imagery and night lights with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on Africa; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Contribute expertise, review or data. Write to contact@therisk.global.
Country work goes through the Consortium Secretariat at contact@therisk.global.
Contributions to Health Nexus come mainly from epidemiologists, hospital managers, laboratory scientists and supply-chain analysts. What helps most is aggregated facility capacity data, review of surge scenarios and accounts of how past events actually stretched services. Contributions feed the health system continuity and health supply chains topics and are analysed with epidemiology and complex systems methods.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Declaration of interests | A written statement in which an expert or participant discloses financial, professional and personal interests that could constitute a real, potential or apparent conflict of interest, so that others can judge and manage it; WHO uses this procedure for its experts. |
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
| Community of practice | A group of people who share a concern or a craft and learn to do it better by interacting regularly; the term comes from Lave and Wenger's work on situated learning. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.