What HFA is

Health forecasting has advanced quickly, but the capacity to do it is spread unevenly across regions. HFA exists to close that gap by connecting networks that already work on forecasting and outbreak analytics, so that methods, tools, computing capacity and expertise circulate between them rather than accumulating in a few institutions.

HFA is a network of networks. Its members are institutions and regional hubs, not states. Each hub keeps its own governance, its own priorities and its own relationships with the countries it serves; HFA connects them and supports their work.

HFA claims no mandate

Responsibility for public health rests with national public health institutions, with regional bodies, and with the World Health Organization. HFA holds no such mandate and does not seek one. It works in support of the institutions that do — to strengthen their capacity, not to duplicate it, supersede it, or speak in their place. Participation involves no transfer of sovereignty.

Outputs inform decisions; they do not direct them

Forecasts produced through HFA are inputs to judgement. Responsibility for any decision taken rests with the authority that takes it. HFA offers no warranty about future events, and no member assumes liability for another member's decisions.

Federated by design

Hub autonomy is structural rather than a matter of goodwill. Nothing in HFA's instruments displaces a hub's own charter or established practice, and where they differ on a matter internal to that hub, the hub's instruments govern.