Coronavirus resources for 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

• Guidance: FDA Guidance on Conduct of Clinical Trials of Medical Products during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration, updated August 2021
• Editorial: Avoiding exploitation in multinational COVID-19 vaccine trials: Low and middle income countries must benefit, not just participate, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Joseph Millum
  BMJ, March 4, 2021
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Ethics Network (PHEPREN) - Led by WHO and supported by key partners including Fogarty/NIH. Currently focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic, offers resources, policy briefs, webinars and an ethics advisory platform.
• COVID-19 resources - Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• Pandemics and social policy - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics
  
• Guidance: English: Guidance and strategies to streamline ethics review and oversight of COVID-19 related research
  Spanish: Orientación y estrategias para agilizar la revisión y supervisión éticas de investigaciones relacionadas con COVID-19
  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), updated April 10, 2020>

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