Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
institutionIntelligence & Surveillance
A group that presents itself as a global security think tank was set up to build disease tracking systems that link health data to national security.
Who they are
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), founded in 2007 by Rockefeller and NTI, according to the record.
What they do
The record calls it a surveillance and laboratory capacity operation.
How it works
Publicly, NTI is described as founded by CNN founder Ted Turner and former US Senator Sam Nunn, a nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organisation that connected biological threats to national security. The record says it was founded by Rockefeller and NTI and is explicitly about surveillance, laboratory capacity, collaboration, data sharing, and regional infectious disease surveillance networks. It works in support of Skoll and Fondation Merieux, among others. NTI launched CORDS with Rockefeller Foundation and founded the Global Health Security Index. The first two editions of the GHS Index were published in 2019 and 2021, developed with Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Economist Impact.
Why it matters
It shows how a group can be presented as a security organisation while its stated work is building health surveillance systems tied to national security.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "Founded in 2007 by Rockefeller and the NTI , and it’s explicitly about surveillance, laboratory capacity, collaboration, data sharing, regional infectious disease surveillance networks, and it works in support of - among others - Skoll and Fondation Merieux." It is presented publicly as: "Founded by CNN founder Ted Turner and former US Senator Sam Nunn, NTI emerged as a ‘ nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organisation ’ that systematically connected biological threats to national security frameworks ." Documents named in the corpus: Nuclear Threat Initiative; NTI; Ending Pandemics; Tides; Skoll; Fondation Merieux. Cross-sourced to en.wikipedia.org, ghsindex.org, nti.org — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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Rockefeller Foundation — $4.50B Global Health / Agricultural / Economic Policy ApexNTI launched CORDS with Rockefeller Foundation [Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Formation (2001), 2007] — does not establish: That Rockefeller Foundation contro
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Global Health Security IndexNTI founded the Global Health Security Index [NTI Global Health Security Index project page (footnote 4), 2019] — does not establish: That NTI controls how gove
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Club of Romeboard membership (Club of Rome president admitted to NTI board) — does not establish: That the Club of Rome directed NTI or the One Health document.
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Global Health Security Agenda2021 GHSA Action Plan loops in NTI [Action Plan from 2021, 2021] — does not establish: funding or command relationship
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