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 #COVID19 research response
  November 2, 16 and 30, 2020
  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
• Train the trainer: COVID-19 training modules for healthcare workers
  from Strengthening Interprofessional Education to Improve HIV Care Across Africa (STRIPE HIV), supported by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Webinar series: Monthly COVID-19 webinars
  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 and News

• 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
• Pandemic ethics resources - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Center for Bioethics
• News: COVID-19 vaccine trial ethics once we have efficacious vaccines, co-authored by Fogarty's Dr Joseph Millum
  Science, December 3, 2020
• News: New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response
  WHO news, July 22, 2020
• COVID-19 Law Lab, a joint project of WHO, UNDP, UNAIDS, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Georgetown University
• 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
• News: Guidance on COVID-19 human subjects protection
  HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), April 8, 2020
• News: FDA Guidance on Conduct of Clinical Trials of Medical Products during COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration, March 2020

 News for Low- and Middle-income
 Countries (LMICs)

• Contact tracing in the COVID-19 response: Best practices in Africa
  Recorded webinar presented by AFREhealth and Fogarty, October 5, 2020
• Correspondence: Facing the monster [COVID-19] in Haiti, authored by NIH grantees, includes advice for low-income countries on managing COVID-19
  New England Journal of Medicine, June 16, 2020
• From easing lockdowns to scaling-up community-based COVID-19 screening, testing, and contact tracing in Africa - shared approaches, innovations, and challenges to minimize morbidity and mortality, featuring Fogarty grantee Dr. Jean Nachega as lead author
  Clinical Infectious Diseases, May 31, 2020
• Mobile health technology for enhancing the COVID-19 response in Africa: A potential game changer?
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, May 29, 2020
• COVID-19: Shining the light on Africa, co-authored by Fogarty senior scientist emeritus Dr Joel Breman
  The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, May 5, 2020
• Curriculum for youth: COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? available in 15 languages
  Smithsonian Science Education Center, May 2020
• Comment: Limiting the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: one size mitigation strategies do not fit all countries, co-authored by Fogarty grantee
  The Lancet Global Health, April 28, 2020
• The potential impact of health service disruptions on the burden of malaria: A modelling analysis for countries in sub-Saharan Africa
  WHO, April 23, 2020
• Strategies combining self-isolation, moderate physical distancing and shielding likely most effective COVID-19 response for African countries
  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine news, April 21, 2020
• Correspondence: Global rheumatology in the time of COVID-19, co-authored by former Fogarty Fellows Drs. Laura B Lewandowski and Evelyn Hsieh
  The Lancet Rheumatology, April 6, 2020
• Comment: Global coalition to accelerate COVID-19 clinical research in resource-limited settings
  The Lancet, April 2, 2020
• Gene studies grow in Nigeria [Audio]: Local researchers trained through H3Africa help trace source of first confirmed case of coronavirus in Nigeria
  The World, Friday, March 13, 2020
• Children's picture book: My Hero is You, How kids can fight COVID-19! available in more than 80 languages
  Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), March 2020
• Viewpoint: Characteristics of and important lessons from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China [Free access] featuring Fogarty trainee Dr Zunyou Wu as lead author
  JAMA, February 24, 2020
• Coronavirus and low-income countries: Ready to respond?
  Center for Global Development blog post, January 31, 2020

 Mapping and Modeling

• 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
• 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