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Coronavirus resources for researchers

A collection of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronavirus resources for global health researchers

Find funding, news, and information on coronavirus news, funding and resources for global health researchers

Training Resources for Researchers

Virtual seminar series: Ethics themes and recommendations in the context of the COVID-19 research response
Hosted by Epidemics Ethics, PHEPREN and the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR)
Course series: OpenWHO COVID-19 Course Series - free online courses available in many languages
Training resources: Training resources for coronavirus workers dealing with the spread of COVID-19
NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Worker Training Program
Learning resources: Responding to COVID-19
African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth)
Webinar series: Life during a Pandemic: How academia responds
Northern Pacific Global Health Fellowship Program
Webinar series: COVID-19 tele-education series for healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
Course: COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Course: COVID-19 Diagnostics and Testing in Low-income Settings
FutureLearn

Bioethics Resources

Epidemic Ethics - The Global Health Network (TGHN)
COVID-19 resources - Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Guidance: Catalyzing Ethical Research in Emergencies. Ethics Guidance, Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Pending Agenda – PAHO
- Spanish: Catalizar la investigación ética en emergencias. Orientación ética, lecciones aprendidas de la pandemia de COVID-19 y agenda pendiente

Research Data and Tools

NIH Research Data and Tools

Open-access data and computational resources to address COVID-19
NIH Office of Data Science Strategy
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) data hub
National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine/NIH
NIH Public Health Emergency and Disaster Research Response, including data collection instruments for assessing COVID-19-relevant behavioral and social science domains for clinical or population research
COVID-19 protocols from PhenX Toolkit, supported by NIH
COVID Digital Pathology Repository (COVID-DPR), hosted at NIH
COVID-19 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) results for public download and use
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
COVID-19 Seroprevalence Studies Hub from NIH and CDC

Research Data and Tools from Others

COVID-19 Data Portal
European Molecular Biology Laboratory European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and partners
COVID-19 Diagnostics from the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)
Global.health, a Data Science Initiative - a scalable and open-access platform that pulls together millions of anonymized COVID-19 cases from over 100 countries, a collaborative effort by technologists and researchers from leading international institutions
Outbreak.info, a standardized, open-source database of COVID-19 resources and epidemiology, supported with funding from NIAID/NIH

Mapping and Modeling

Resources

WHO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) dashboard
Center for Systems Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University: COVID-19 dashboard
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME):
COVID-19 projections by country
Global Epidemic and Mobility Model (GLEAM) Project:
Modeling COVID-19 in the United States

Publications

Epidemiological characteristics and transmission dynamics of the outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Shanghai, China: A descriptive study, co-authored by Fogarty's Kaiyuan Sun
Lancet Regional Health, Western Pacific, September 7, 2022
Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination, co-authored by Fogarty’s Cécile Viboud
eLife, June 21, 2022
Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China, co-authored by Fogarty’s Kaiyuan Sun
Nature, May 10, 2022
Estimation of excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
JAMA Internal Medicine, July 1, 2020
Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
Science, April 29, 2020
Comment: Impact of contact tracing on SARS-CoV-2 transmission, authored by Fogarty scientists
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, April 27, 2020
Evolving epidemiology and transmission dynamics of coronavirus disease 2019 outside Hubei province, China: a descriptive and modelling study, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, April 2, 2020
The effect of travel restrictions on the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Cecile Viboud
Science, March 6, 2020
Early epidemiological analysis of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak based on crowdsourced data: a population-level observational study, authored by Fogarty scientists
The Lancet Digital Health, February 20, 2020

Updated October 4, 2023