GCRI · Health Nexus
Participation paths
How researchers, practitioners and institutions take part in Health Nexus, and what taking part does and does not mean.
The workspace for participation paths.
Community workspace
Health · Participation paths · Example interface, not a record
Working groups
| 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 |
Join requests
- J-1Hydrologist, early careerHealth supply chain WG5 d
- J-2Utility engineerHospital continuity WG2 d
- J-3Conflict of interest to declareSurveillance WG5 d
Contributions
Health Nexus · Community workspace. Community workspace: example names and illustrative values, not a record.
Choose the route that fits.
Experts and practitioners
Contribute expertise, review or data. Write to the contact form.
National programmes
Country work goes through the Consortium Secretariat at the contact form.
What specialists can contribute to health work.
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.
- Facility capacity data under data-sharing terms.
- Review of outbreak scenarios.
- Clinical experience of surge events.
- Community health worker insight.
How the process runs.
Process explorer · Process
Participation paths: Working group, charter to sunset
9 steps·4 stages·1 gate
Process
Participation paths: Working group, charter to sunset
A working group is chartered by record for a fixed timebox, delivers bounded assignments, drafts and recommends, then dissolves unless renewed; it does not adopt.
01 Form
- 01NLC proposes the groupDecision · National Leadership CouncilThe NLC proposes working groups and nominates chairs, editors and experts from its leadership pools. It does not charter.
- 02Charter by recordDecision · National Standards CouncilA working group is chartered by record for a timebox of at most twenty-four months. The charter sets its scope, roles and decision rule.
- 03Members join by competenceStep · MembersExperts, practitioners, students and volunteers join by competence. Members declare interests and recuse on conflict.
02 Work
- 04Workplan from the national agendaStepAssignments come from the national agenda and the year’s missions. Each states the competence it needs and how the work will be reviewed.
- 05Drafts and deliverables, delivered monthlyRecordGroups deliver monthly. For standards they draft the national profile and deviation register and run national public comment and pilots.
03 Review
- 06Contribution record and reviewGateEach contribution is recorded and reviewed. A working group drafts and recommends; it does not adopt.
- 07Recognition follows the recordRecordContribution records are kept, so that recognition follows the record.
- 08National adoption is decided elsewhereDecision · National Standards CouncilThe National Standards Council decides the adoption mode and the national profile. The working group proposes and never decides.
04 Close
- 09Dissolved by default, or renewed by recordDecision · National Standards CouncilA group is dissolved by default at the end of the timebox. The National Standards Council renews or closes it, on the NLC’s proposal.
National Working Groups · National Standards Council · Decision rightsDesigned programme process, not a record of operation. No cycle has run and every programme is at service level R0. A gate is a programme decision, never a public-authority approval, certification or deployment authorisation. No working group is constituted. The charter rules belong to the proposed Nexus Standards working model.
Participation and its limits.
- An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership, a role or an assignment.
- Taking part gives no authority, appointment or influence over findings.
- Conflicts of interest are declared before work begins.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
Where this page’s references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
Is there a fee?
Take part in Health Nexus.
Start from who you are. Answer an open call. Or form and lead a competence cell on the Health Nexus platform.
National institutions
Ministries, statistics offices and agencies: a national desk and chapter, and a seat in the working groups. National chapters
Sectors and professions
Operators, regulators, banks, insurers and professional bodies whose work touches Health Nexus. Participate
Learning
Courses and practice, with a record of every course completed. Free to study. Open learning
Standards
Draft, review and adopt the methods and data standards with the working groups. Working groups
Communities and research
Universities, civil society and individual experts: projects, data and review. Write to the team
| Open call | Seeks | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Founding call for experts to the working groups CALL-FOUNDING-EXPERTS | expert, editor, chair | 2026-12-15 |
| Open nomination for the three independent expert seats of the Global Standards Council CALL-GSC-IND | council-member | 2026-12-01 |
| Nominations of interim regional members (applies only if the transitional provision is decided) CALL-GSC-REG | council-member | 2026-12-15 |
| Review of the wave-1 risk core outlines (C1, C2, C3, C4, C8, C10, C11) CALL-REVIEW-WAVE1 | contributor | 2027-01-31 |
| Experts for the core standards of risk science: uncertainty and evidence grading, scales, structured expert judgement, tolerability, extremes and compound events, catastrophic and existential risk, ethics and equity, units and measurement (NRS-C17 to NRS-C24) CALL-CORE-SCIENCE | expert, editor, chair | 2027-01-31 |
| Independent reviewers for the families of the hazard atlas, three from at least two regions for each family (NHS2-R19), priority families first CALL-ATLAS-REVIEW | expert | 2027-03-31 |
| Members of the interim Frontier Safety Review Panel and red-team reviewers (biosafety and biosecurity, AI safety and security, critical-infrastructure security); applications treated in confidence CALL-FRONTIER-SAFETY-REVIEW | expert | 2026-11-30 |
| Experts in ontology, metrology, software verification and conformity assessment for the requirement register, the NHS-2 machine representation, the conformance test suites and the conformity assessment scheme CALL-CONFORMANCE-ONTOLOGY | expert, editor | 2027-01-31 |
Calls past their closing date are hidden automatically. Every call, proposal and route: open areas and calls.
Gather the cell
Bring together three to seven people with complementary skills: data, field practice, policy and communication.
Register it
Write to the team with the cell’s name, members, area and region. You receive a reference and a contact. Write to the team
Choose a charter
Pick one focus: research and evidence, data and maps, standards review, or community preparedness.
Learn together
Follow shared study paths at Risk Academy, with practice and a record of every course completed. Hazards and resilience
Lead and report
Hold regular sessions. Publish what the cell learns through Reports. Bring findings to the working groups. Working groups
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