About this platform
The Healthcare Scenario Planning Platform is a discussion-based preparedness tool. It provides ready-to-run tabletop exercises and an interactive planner across five domains: pandemics, biosecurity, healthcare systems, biotechnology & biosafety, and biosurveillance.
It is the unified front door of the BioR health-security ecosystem, linking the Global Pandemic Preparedness Benchmark, the Pandemic Preparedness Knowledge Base and the Pathogen Biosurveillance Platform Benchmark into a single planning workspace.
Readiness, not just preparedness
The platform is grounded in the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach. A system can be excellent at preparedness — getting ready for a threat that resembles what it has seen — and still lack readiness for one that is precedent-free. Scenarios here exist to build readiness: they do not predict the next pandemic, they test the robustness of a plan's assumptions against plausible, unfamiliar futures. See the Assumptions Register and the framework.
How to run an exercise
- Pick a scenario matching the capability you want to test.
- Assign the listed roles to participants and appoint a facilitator.
- Reveal injects on the timeline, pausing at each decision point for structured discussion.
- Capture decisions, assumptions and friction points as you go.
- Close with the after-action questions and convert findings into an improvement plan.
Responsible-use note
Every scenario here is a defensive preparedness and training tool. Pathogen parameters are hypothetical planning figures for facilitated discussion — not operational data, and not instructions for creating or enhancing any biological agent. The platform focuses on coordination, decision-making, communication and response capability.
Tech
Built with Hono v4 + TypeScript on Cloudflare Pages, styled with Tailwind CSS, with Chart.js for capability radar charts — matching the rest of the BioR ecosystem.