Summary: Driving Force for Innovation To tackle the growing health crises, including natural disasters and pandemics, an Open Ecosystem has been created at an academic center to accelerate challenge-driven research and human resource development for health security. Health Security here aims to prevent, prepare for, respond to, mitigate, recover from, and reconstruct to protect and improve people’s health during any crisis, whether of sudden onset or silent progression. Significant Findings: This ecosystem has three ecological cycles that reciprocally enhance performance for health security 1. Policy, Practice, and Academia The first is an interconnection of Policy, Practice, and Academia. For example, a memorandum of understanding is in place between the national headquarters of disaster medical assistance teams and academia to advance simultaneously solution-oriented R 2) networking with the national organizations of infection diseases, global health, public health, disaster medical assistance team headquarters, governments, universities and organizations; 3) global networks of national and international agencies and academic institutions around the world. Open Platform for Co-Creation Based on the above founding philosophies, the Centre for Health Security at Kyoto University was established in April 2024 as an open platform for individuals and organizations worldwide to collaborate and advance local and global health security activities.
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