Please note that this portal is now archived. The ISC has a new project, COVID-19 Outcome Scenarios, and we invite you to explore the project here.

The portal shares scientific commentary and analysis and provides access to information on various initiatives, highlighting the scale and scope of response and encouraging ISC members and partners to collaborate and share best practices during this global emergency.

Please note that the World Health Organization is providing rolling updates on the pandemic Click here.

You will find in this portal:

1. Information on responses by scientific communities in different fields and different countries/regions of the world. Click on Institutional Responses for the full list.
2. Access to rapidly emerging scientific debate on the pandemic. Click on Scientific Debates to engage in the discussion.

Latest additions

COVID-19 Scenarios Project

The coronavirus is here to stay — here’s what that means

Is COVID-19 shifting attitudes towards sustainability? A case study from Amsterdam

The two psychologies of the pandemic: from ‘fragile rationality’ to ‘collective resilience’

Rethinking Economics in the Light of COVID and Future Crises – Watch the recording

Small‐scale mining, Covid‐19 and constant interruptions in West Africa

Current COVID-19 campaigns

Bouncing Forward Sustainably: Pathways to post-COVID-19 world

UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery

United Nations

Research Roadmap to guide recovery from COVID-19

Call for Action: Managing the Infodemic

Information from the UN System – All the UN agencies here.

A UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19

WHO: COVID-19 technology access pool

“This is a time for science and solidarity” says UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.

Things you might have missed

ISC President, Daya Reddy and ISC Patron, Mary Robinson, have a joint op-ed published in Project Syndicate.

INGSA has launched a Policy-Making Tracker and calls for global volunteers to assist in tracking how government policy is formed in response to COVID-19.

CODATA, World Data System, the Research Data Alliance and Global Open FAIR  have joined forces to optimize the research data ecosystem, launching a COVID-19 appeal as their first joint action.

Contact

Contact: secretariat@council.science

Disclaimer: The views, thoughts, opinions and external content in the texts expressed on the ISC’s COVID-19 portal and are not necessarily those of the ISC.