Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Charity

The Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins

Pandemic Prevention Program

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.

What problem is the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) working on?

CHS's mission is to “protect people’s health from epidemics and disasters and ensure that communities are resilient to major challenges.” It focuses on:

CHS was founded in 1998 and reports being the first non-governmental organisation dedicated to the study of public health preparedness.

What does CHS do?

CHS is multidisciplinary, bringing together experts and scholars from a wide variety of related fields and connecting them with industry leaders and government officials.

Specifically, CHS:

What information does Giving What We Can have about the cost-effectiveness of CHS?1.

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:

  • Has developed an excellent track record of producing quality research, analysis and policy recommendations.
  • Has a strong team that combines expertise in bioscience, medicine, public health and security.
  • Is a trusted source of independent advice to the US government.

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 2023 evaluator investigations; while we expect to soon look into Founders Pledge as part of this more in-depth evaluator research, we haven’t yet. 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.

Please note that GWWC does not evaluate individual charities. Our recommendations are based on the research of third-party, impact-focused charity evaluators our research team has found to be particularly well-suited to help donors do the most good per dollar, according to their recent evaluator investigations. Our other supported programs are those that align with our charitable purpose — they are working on a high-impact problem and take a reasonably promising approach (based on publicly-available information).

At Giving What We Can, we focus on the effectiveness of an organisation's work -- what the organisation is actually doing and whether their programs are making a big difference. Some others in the charity recommendation space focus instead on the ratio of admin costs to program spending, part of what we’ve termed the “overhead myth.” See why overhead isn’t the full story and learn more about our approach to charity evaluation.