The Pandemic Prevention Program aims to fortify global health by conducting pioneering research and policy analysis to enhance preparedness and response to infectious diseases and public health crises.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) conducts independent research and analysis aimed at preventing and responding to public health crises. CHS explores how new policy approaches, scientific advances and technological innovations can strengthen health security and save lives.
CHS’s mission is to “protect people’s health from epidemics and disasters and ensure that communities are resilient to major challenges.” CHS focuses on:
CHS was founded in 1998 and reports being the first non-governmental organisation to study the vulnerability of the US civilian population to biological weapons and how to prevent, prepare and respond to their consequences.
CHS is multidisciplinary, bringing together experts and scholars from a wide variety of related fields and connecting them with policymakers, scientists, private sector and other key stakeholders.
Specifically, CHS:
We previously included the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security as one of our recommended charities based on Founders Pledge’s evaluation highlighting its cost-effectiveness. Founders Pledge found that CHS:
Other indicators of CHS’s cost-effectiveness are:
We’ve since updated our recommendations to reflect only organisations recommended by evaluators we’ve looked into as part of our evaluator investigations and decided to rely on; as such, we don't currently include CHS as one of our recommended programs but you can still donate to it via our donation platform.
We have varying degrees of information about the cost-effectiveness of our supported programs. We have more information about programs that impact-focused evaluators (some of which our research team expects to investigate soon as part of their evaluator investigations) have looked into, as well as programs that we’ve previously included on our list of recommended charities. We think it’s important to share the information we have with donors as we expect it will be useful in their donation decisions, but don’t want donors to mistakenly overweight the extent to which we share information about some charities and not others. Therefore, we want to clarify two things: