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 crisis. 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.
3. To participate in the discussion, or to share your COVID19 initiatives to this portal, please fill out the submission form.

Latest additions

Event: COVID-19 – From Recovery to Sustainability

Podcast: Role of data for COVID response using Gujarat, India and London, UK as examples

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

Learning from COVID-19 and building more resilient food systems

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

Vaccine hesitancy threatens to undermine pandemic response

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.

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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.