Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeHealth and SocietyDepartment of Global Health Security

Hospital safety, surge capacity, workforce, supply chains and continuity

Health systems and health care resilience

Health systems and health care resilience covers the capacity of a health system to keep essential services running through shocks: hospital safety, surge capacity, workforce, medical supply chains, digital health and health data, health financing shocks and equity.

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Health systems and health care resilience, drawn as an epidemic curve: 0 primary courses open, 1 in preparation, 0 approved for authoring and 2 also taught here, across 8 subtopics. Courses: RAN-316 L2 in preparation, RAF-112 L1 also taught here, RAF-120 L1 also taught here.L1L2L3L4Also
Health systems and health care resilience at a glance. Drawn as an epidemic curve.
  • Open, 0
  • In preparation, 1
  • Also taught here, 2
  • Subtopics, 8
Course codes from the curriculum; study levels L1 to L4.
Twin builder and simulatorDelhi and its National Capital Territory core5 twin generators, 12 layers, 3 instruments
courses open now
0
in preparation
1
subtopics in its scope
8
hospitals
950

Twin figures for Delhi and its National Capital Territory core, counted from its layers at their stated dates.

Twin builder and simulator.

For Health systems and health care resilience: the faculty's twin of Delhi on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.

Delhi and its National Capital Territory core: a flat plan of the faculty twin. Terrain 191 to 315 m; 950 hospitals; 26,073,018 people in the box, 2020; Population density, GPW v4.11 (2020): live, loads in the twin; Air quality, Copernicus CAMS via Open-Meteo (hourly, 5 days): live, loads in the twin; Nitrogen dioxide column, TROPOMI (Sentinel-5P): live, loads in the twin; Surface air temperature, AIRS (daily, day): live, loads in the twin; Urban heat island, summer daytime 2013: live, loads in the twin; Built-up and settlement extent, HBASE 2010: live, loads in the twin. Contours every 50 metres from the elevation grid; people per cell, worldpop 2020 as four classes per cell (edges 4,474, 14,627, 25,652); hospitals as marks.
Delhi and its National Capital Territory core, India. Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
  • Terrain 191 to 315 m
  • 950 hospitals
  • 26,073,018 people in the box, 2020
  • Population density, GPW v4.11 (2020): live, loads in the twin
  • Air quality, Copernicus CAMS via Open-Meteo (hourly, 5 days): live, loads in the twin
  • Nitrogen dioxide column, TROPOMI (Sentinel-5P): live, loads in the twin
  • Surface air temperature, AIRS (daily, day): live, loads in the twin
  • Urban heat island, summer daytime 2013: live, loads in the twin
  • Built-up and settlement extent, HBASE 2010: live, loads in the twin
Credits and dates per layer are listed under the stage. Relief in the twin is exaggerated ×1.5 for legibility.

Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.

Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, the WorldPop count grid as cells, the mapped hospitals and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.

The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).

The discipline in brief.

The discipline teaches the hospital safety index method, surge capacity estimation from beds, staff and supplies, supply-chain mapping for medicines and oxygen, continuity planning under ISO 22301 and ISO 22320:2018, health financing analysis as external aid falls, and patient safety, with the 950 mapped hospital points of the Delhi twin (as mapped, no capacity implied) and the WorldPop count grid as the exposure they serve. A graduate can assess a facility with the safety index method, estimate the surge a network can absorb from mapped facilities and workforce data, and write the continuity plan for a hospital's dependencies on power, water and supply.

This area covers the capacity of health systems to keep essential services running through shocks: hospital safety, surge capacity, workforce, medical supply chains, digital health and health data, health financing and equity. It is taught in the department of Global Health Security, Faculty of Health and Society, through 1 course with it as primary discipline and 2 more that also teach it.

What the discipline covers.

8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.

Courses
0 open, 1 in preparation
Levels
L2 Intermediate
Labs
Map lab, Exposure lab
  • Health system continuity
  • Hospital safety and resilience
  • Surge capacity and workforce
  • Medical supply chains
  • Digital health and health data
  • Health financing shocks
  • Health equity
  • Patient safety

What is changing now.

Recent developments in health systems and health care resilience, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.

The faculty hub.

News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.

The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Health systems and health care resilience, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub

How technology helps and what risk it brings.

How the subject is practised in labs.

LabWhat you do in itCourses using it
Map labRead hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps3
Exposure labOverlay people and assets with hazard footprints1

1 in preparation.

No course with this primary discipline is open yet; these are planned, so you can prepare with the courses also taught here.

Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 1 in preparation

  1. RAN-316Health Care Risk and Hospital ResilienceIn preparationNexus, L2 Intermediate, 10 hours (estimate)

Courses from other disciplines.

These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.

Also taught here2 courses that count in another discipline

  1. RAF-112Public Health Emergencies and One HealthIn preparationFoundation, L1 Introductory, 8 hours (estimate), primary in Public health emergencies and epidemics
  2. RAF-120Pollution and Environmental Health RiskIn preparationFoundation, L1 Introductory, 6 hours (estimate), primary in Pollution and environmental health

Methods, frameworks and hazards.

From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.

Hazard families

  1. Extreme heat1 course
  2. Ransomware and malware1 course

What you can earn here.

Where the subject is worked on.

The two Foundry systems where it is practised.

  • Nexus FoundryGRIx systemHealth system capacity indicatorsData room
  • Nexus systemHealth programmes run as a portfolioPortfolios room

Nexus Foundry system pages describe what each system and its rooms are designed to do; they are not a service on offer, and studying here gives no access to them.

Terms used on this page.

Health systems and health care resilience

Prepare with a related course.

Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.

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