The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Health Nexus rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by GCRI, and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
Fig.The methods this platform draws on and what each one feeds. Design, not a record.
The Health Nexus STEM foundation is the set of canonical methods its findings depend on, from epidemiology and public health science to biotechnology platforms. For the Consortium, Health Nexus stewards epidemiology and public health science. Each method has a canonical STEM Commons page and a page here on its use in the health and biosecurity field.
How far each division sits from a large city, with the roads and airports that carry patients and supplies, shown for Southern Africa as an example geography for this subject.
Health risk combines epidemiology and life sciences for the threat, probability and causal inference for evidence, complex systems for transmission and behaviour, data engineering for surveillance pipelines, and biotechnology for countermeasures.
When a finding names the methods it depends on, a reader can see its assumptions and limits, and an expert in that method can challenge it.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| STEM Commons | The shared reference of science, technology, engineering and mathematics methods for the Nexus network, hosted by GCRI, with one canonical page per method and a named steward platform. |
| Steward platform | The platform that maintains the canonical description of a method in the STEM Commons and reviews how other platforms apply it. |
| Epidemiology and public health science | Epidemiology studies the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations. |
| Molecular and life sciences | Molecular and life sciences study the structure and function of living systems from genes and proteins to cells and organisms. |
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.