Human, animal and environmental health share pathogens, data systems and surge capacity, so an outbreak is also a logistics, finance and information event. This subsite relates surveillance, health-security and emergency standards to the identifiers and evidence records the rest of the ecosystem reads; on biosecurity it covers capacity and oversight only. Every artifact of these areas carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Nexus Standards (2026). Health and Biosecurity: master subsite of the Nexus Standards (PROPOSED areas). https://nexustandards.com/health/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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Every area of the subsite with its tier, status, the Nexus Standards it lists, the open standards it names, its feeds and its couplings. Area entries are PROPOSED; registry rows are named where they exist.
Area index3 of 6 areas have a registry row; the rest are proposed areas with a full context entry and no registry row yet. Feed counts include sources pending admission.
Open Earth observation layers framed on west africa, as an example geography for health and biosecurity: context for where its records live, never an assessment and never a statement of where the standards apply. Layers, dates and credits are on the map.
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Haze, nitrogen dioxide, dust, surface heat by day and night, and where people live, framed on West Africa.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
Layers and dates
Provider, licence, delivery path and register status for each source. A source is live on a public page only after an owner decision admits it; until then it reads pending admission.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Data Store)pending admission
Copernicus Climate Change Service (ECMWF) · daily, five-day latency
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
GBIF occurrence API and downloadspending admission
Global Biodiversity Information Facility · continuous
Per-dataset CC0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
Global Health Observatorypending admission
World Health Organization · varies by indicator
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (WHO terms; register row PROHIBITED for the commercial path)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
WHO Global Health Observatory OData APIpending admission
World Health Organization · varies by indicator
WHO terms of use; licence stated per dataset (to be confirmed)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
WHO Global Health Observatory OData API (including SPAR capacity scores)pending admission
World Health Organization · annual
WHO terms of use; licence stated per dataset (to be confirmed)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Development Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual with quarterly updates
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
WorldPop gridded populationpending admission
WorldPop (University of Southampton) · annual
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
WorldPop gridded populationpending admission
WorldPop, University of Southampton · annual
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
e-SPAR public portalpending admission
World Health Organization · annual
WHO terms of use (to be confirmed)
build-time snapshotproposed register row
WAHIS animal health eventspending admission
World Organisation for Animal Health · event-driven
WOAH terms of use; licence to be recorded by Legal
browser-direct readproposed register row
WHO Disease Outbreak Newspending admission
World Health Organization · event-driven
WHO website terms (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO); link-out only
browser-direct readproposed register row
29 coupling rows join this subsite's areas to 11 other subsites, counted from the systemicContext rows of the area context bank in both directions. Select a card on the canvas to trace it.
Fig.Edge labels count coupling rows. GATE marks a subsite, DONE and RUNNING an area of this subsite. Tags give reading order only. Design, not a record.
| Coupled subsite | Rows | Example mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Water and Food Systems | 9 | Cascade: flood damage to sanitation and drinking-water failures drive cholera and other water-borne outbreaks.Water risk standards to Health risk standards |
| Climate and Earth Systems | 6 | Cascade: pollution episodes raise respiratory and cardiovascular admissions and mortality.Atmosphere and air quality risk standards to Health risk standards |
| Governance, Security and Society | 3 | Cascade: attacks on health care and displacement drive outbreaks.Conflict and security risk standards to Health risk standards |
| Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction | 2 | Biological hazards are within Sendai scope; health emergency losses and early-warning coverage are recorded once and tagged to both frameworks.International Health Regulations alignment to Sendai Framework alignment |
| Humanitarian Action and Development | 2 | Outbreak response in crises relies on humanitarian logistics and shared operational data under data-responsibility rules.Health systems to Humanitarian and civil society |
| Industry, Trade and Supply Chains | 2 | Feedback: outbreaks disrupt supply chains, and shortages of medicines and equipment worsen outbreak outcomes.Health risk standards to Supply chain and trade risk |
| Cities and the Built Environment | 1 | Cascade: density and informal settlement raise outbreak transmission and heat mortality.Cities and urban systems risk standards to Health risk standards |
| Digital, Cyber and AI | 1 | Common driver: biotechnology can lower barriers to creating biological hazards.Frontier technology risk standards to Biological hazard standards |
| Area | NS-0 | NS-1 | NS-3 | NS-9 | NS-10 | NS-11 | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health risk standards | 6 | ||||||
| Biological hazard standards | 3 | ||||||
| Health systems | 4 | ||||||
| Health security and One Health | 5 | ||||||
| International Health Regulations alignment | 3 | ||||||
| WHO and health emergencies | 2 |
Standards that applyA filled cell means the area's context entry lists that Nexus Standard. Context entries are PROPOSED; no cell is a conformance, certification or readiness statement.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Health risk standards · GCRI Canada may admit aggregated surveillance and capacity records that carry case definitions, reporting lags and de-identification statements as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and…
Biological hazard standards · GCRI Canada may admit outbreak records with verification status, case definition and reporting lag as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
Health systems · De-identified surveillance and facility-continuity records with provenance and correction history are readable by the GCRI Canada evidence pipeline under its own rules.
3 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Health risk standards · GRF may record health ministries and networks that adopt the records as part of a preparedness dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
Biological hazard standards · GRF may record surveillance networks publishing on the shared outbreak profile as part of a One Health dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
Health systems · A health programme that publishes preparedness clauses and attestations against IHR and JEE indicators gives GRF a record trail to consider; no recognition follows automatically.
3 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Health risk standards · GRA may read health-system continuity records when it reviews resilience investment in health infrastructure; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Biological hazard standards · GRA may read biological hazard records when it considers pandemic and agricultural risk finance; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Health systems · Health-system resilience investments can carry verified facility-safety and continuity baselines into GRA capital-readiness assessment, decided by GRA.
3 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Each area proposes a working group with a scope, deliverables and liaison targets; a liaison is sought, never claimed, until the body confirms it in writing.
| Area | Working group scope | Deliverables | Liaison sought |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health risk standards | Records for surveillance signals, outbreak events and health-system capacity that map to IHR obligations and HL7 FHIR, with privacy by design. | 3 | 4WHO Health Emergencies Programme, HL7 International Public Health Work Group, Africa CDC, Global Outbreak Alert and… |
| Biological hazard standards | Outbreak, epizootic and pest records across human, animal and plant health with verification states and dual-use safeguards. | 3 | 4WHO Health Emergencies Programme, World Organisation for Animal Health, IPPC Secretariat, FAO Emergency Prevention… |
| Health systems | Profile surveillance, facility-continuity and preparedness records and crosswalk them to IHR, JEE, Health EDRM and clinical data standards. | 3 | 4World Health Organization (Health Emergencies Programme), HL7 International, WOAH, Africa CDC |
| Health security and One Health | Records for preparedness capacity, One Health integration and response. | 3 | 4WHO, WOAH, FAO, UNEP (Quadripartite) |
| International Health Regulations alignment | Maintain the IHR capacity crosswalk and surveillance record profiles, tracking the amended regulations and related WHO instruments. | 3 | 2World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme (information exchange sought; none recorded), HL7 International… |
| WHO and health emergencies | Describe WHO's emergency tools and data accurately and develop open profiles that join health signals to multi-hazard records. | 2 | 2World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme (information exchange sought; none recorded), HL7 International… |
Pick an area above, adopt its proposed charter and file it as a docket under NS-13; editors decide with written reasons. Develop a standard
Every area entry is PROPOSED: a pull request against the area context bank names the change and its source, peer-reviewed or published statistics.
Propose a feed with provider, licence and delivery path; Legal/IP records the terms and the owner decides admission. Agents never admit a source.
Contribute to an external standard through its own body's channels; the outcome comes back here as a register change. Movement and contribution
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics as the area entries cite them, newest first within each type.
The Nexus Risk Standards read in Health and Biosecurity, the NHS-1 hazard domains it carries and its library: scope, codes, schemas, conformance, governance, templates, crosswalks, change log and how to contribute.
H, K, M, N, T and U
NHS-1 health21 families
LibraryRisk Academy disciplines that teach Health and Biosecurity, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Charter a working group, correct a brief or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.