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Health Security
Health security is a concept that encompasses activities and measures that mitigate public health incidents, to ensure the health of populations across sovereign boundaries. It is an evolving paradigm within the fields of International Relations and Security Studies. Proponents of health security posit that all states have a responsibility to protect the health and wellbeing of their populations.

The advent of new security challenges, resulting from increasing global vulnerability to infectious diseases has created demand for greater global commitment and collaboration towards public health. Globalisation, and the advent of transnational concerns regarding the spread of infectious disease have become integral to national and international security agendas. Disease, pandemics, and epidemics have become of increasing concern for global policymakers and governments, requiring mobilisation of essential resources for the implementation of rapid and effective health procedures. The World Health Organisation (WHO), and initiatives such as the Global Health Security Agenda are central to advocacy of health security - aiming to improve detection, prevention, and response to infectious disease through public health surveillance and partnerships between states.