COVID-19 Resources for Members and Global Public Health Professionals
To assist our members, partners, and other public health professionals, IANPHI created in March 2020 a list of publicly available resources, links and documents related to the COVID-19 response, as well as a list of publicly available web pages and documents detailing responses of our member organizations. The list has been updated regularly ever since. Resources are primarily in English.
In the Spotlight
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an Emerging Infectious Diseases Supplement on Leveraging and Adapting Global Health Systems and Programs during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The supplement includes an Exploratory Literature Review of the Role of National Public Health Institutes in COVID-19 Response (Volume 28, Supplement—December 2022 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC)
IANPHI COVID-19 Webinars: IANPHI has been hosting webinars featuring our members' senior public health leaders sharing their experience responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resources of each session are available.
IANPHI COVID-19 Lessons Learned Report: in May 2022, IANPHI released a report on Lessons Learned from National Public Health Institutes’ Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak, which offers a synthesis of the lessons learned exercise IANPHI conducted with our members about their role in the COVID-19 response in the first year of the pandemic.
Santé publique France publishes weekly COVID-19 epidemiological updates in English.
See Santé publique France's Updates
Peer and Partner Coronavirus Resources
World Health Organization (WHO)
- WHO daily situation reports tracking the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports
- WHO COVID-19 dashboard: https://covid19.who.int
- WHO overview of COVID-19: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
- WHO COVID-19 technical guidance: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance-publications?healthtopics=b6bd35a3-cf4f-4851-8e80-85cb0068335b&publishingoffices=aeebab07-3d0c-4a24-b6ef-7c11b7139e43&healthtopics-hidden=true&publishingoffices-hidden=true
- COVID-19 vaccine country readiness and delivery (guidance, tools, trainings, and advocacy materials, regularly updated): https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax/covid-19-vaccine-country-readiness-and-delivery
- COVID-19 vaccine demand package: guidance, tools, and templates to generate acceptance and demand for COVID-19 vaccines: https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax/covid-19-vaccine-country-readiness-and-delivery/acceptance-and-demand
- OPENWHO - WHO free online learning platform for health emergencies with 25 courses for COVID-19 across 44 languages: https://openwho.org/courses?topic=COVID-19
- WHO Academy’s COVID-19 mobile learning app for health workers, delivering up-to-the-minute guidance, tools, training, and virtual workshops (available in seven languages): https://www.who.int/about/who-academy/the-who-academy-s-covid-19-mobile-learning-app
- WHO health security learning platform on contact tracing: https://extranet.who.int/hslp/training/course/view.php?id=327#section-2
- ECC-19 (Evidence Collaborative on COVID-19 Network), a consortium of experts and organizations for information sharing and collaboration around evidence retrieval efforts to combat COVID-19, coordinated by the WHO department of Quality Assurance of Norms and Standards within the Science Division: https://sites.google.com/view/ecc19/home
- COVID-19 Law Lab: collecting and sharing legal documents from the COVID-19 response: https://covidlawlab.org
- Partnership between WHO, Facebook and Praekelt.Org to provide access to COVID-19 information without data charges on participating operators in more than 50 countries, in Free Basics and Discover, in a mobile-friendly format; available in multiple languages: https://www.praekelt.org
- The Collective Service: a new partnership for strengthening risk communication and community engagement in public health and humanitarian emergencies - offers communications guides and tools: https://www.who.int/teams/risk-communication/the-collective-service
- WHO COVID-19 global risk communication and community engagement strategy – interim guidance: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/covid-19-global-risk-communication-and-community-engagement-strategy
- WHO position paper on building health systems resilience for universal health coverage and health security during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2021/10/19/default-calendar/launch-of-the-who-position-paper-on-building-health-systems-resilience-for-universal-health-coverage-and-health-security-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-beyond
- Social Media Toolkit for Health Practitioners, which provides simple, useful information on sharing trusted sources of information, ready-to-go assets to share on social media accounts, and support to create content: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/a-social-media-toolkit-for-healthcare-practitioners---desktop
- Twitter: @WHO
WHO Europe
- WHO Europe COVID-19 home: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19
- WHO Europe COVID-19 latest updates: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/covid-19-latest-updates
- WHO Europe materials in different languages available for download: http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/multimedia
WHO Africa
- WHO Africa COVID-19 home: https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19
- WHO Africa COVID-19 technical documents: https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19/technical-documents
Africa Centres For Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
- Africa CDC COVID-19 dashboard: https://africacdc.org/covid-19/
- Africa COVID-19 vaccination dashboard: https://africacdc.org/covid-19-vaccination/
- Africa CDC COVID-19 resources: https://africacdc.org/covid-19/covid-19-resources/
- Africa CDC COVID-19 audio and video resources: https://africacdc.org/covid-19-multimedia/
- Africa CDC COVID-19 research tracker - provides links to research reports on COVID-19 and related public health issues, and aims to make the results of those research activities available to more scientists and researchers in Africa and from around the world: https://africacdc.org/covid-19/covid-19-research-tracker/
- Twitter: @AfricaCDC
European Centre For Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
- ECDC COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-vaccine-tracker
- ECDC COVID-19 disease page, with frequent updates: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19
- ECDC geographical distribution of COVID-19 cases globally: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases
- ECDC facts about COVID-19: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/novel-coronavirus/facts:
- Current risk assessment on the COVID-19 situation: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/current-risk-assessment-novel-coronavirus-situation
- ECDC sources of updated information on COVID-19 in the EU/EEA countries: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/COVID-19/national-sources
- Conducting in-action and after-action reviews of the public health response to COVID-19: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/conducting-action-and-after-action-reviews-public-health-response-covid-19
- ECDC technical report: one-day in-action review (IAR) protocol in the context of COVID-19: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/One-day-in-action-review-protocol.pdf
- ECDC technical report: countering online misinformation in the EU/EEA: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Countering-online-vaccine-misinformation-in-the-EU-EEA.pdf
- Twitter: @ECDC_EU
European Commission
- EU Science Hub's science updates: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-updates?f%5B0%5D=im_field_identities%3A3331
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- PAHO COVID-19 resources: https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15696:coronavirus&Itemid=4206&lang=en
Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)
- ASPHER COVID-19 taskforce: https://www.aspher.org/covid-19-task-force.html
National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC China)
- NHC China home page with COVID-19: http://en.nhc.gov.cn/
- NHC China news page: http://en.nhc.gov.cn/news.html
IANPHI Member Coronavirus Resources
Santé publique France
- Santé publique France's COVID-19 home page: https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-traumatismes/maladies-et-infections-respiratoires/infection-a-coronavirus/articles/infection-au-nouveau-coronavirus-sars-cov-2-covid-19-france-et-monde
- Rapid reviews of literature on COVID-19: https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-traumatismes/maladies-et-infections-respiratoires/infection-a-coronavirus/articles/covid-19-etat-des-connaissances-et-veille-documentaire
- Santé publique France's COVID-19 mitigation communications tools, including posters in 20+ languages, video and audio resources for the general public and healthcare workers: https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/dossiers/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-outils-de-prevention-destines-aux-professionnels-de-sante-et-au-grand-public
- EMERGEN consortium, set up by Santé publique France and ANRS | Emerging Infectious Diseases to deploy a genomic surveillance system for SARS-CoV-2 in France for public health and research purposes: https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/dossiers/coronavirus-covid-19/consortium-emergen
- Twitter: @santeprevention
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC)
- U.S. CDC microsite with resources and information for the general public and healthcare providers from across the agency for understanding and addressing the coronavirus situation: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html?deliveryName=USCDC_964-DM18080&deliveryName=USCDC_289-DM21087
- U.S. CDC homepage for all COVID-19 resources: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html
- U.S. CDC COVID-19 resource page for public health professionals: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/index.html
- U.S. CDC COVID-19 resource page with disease overview and steps for the general public: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/index.html
- National Wastewater Surveillance System: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance/wastewater-surveillance/wastewater-surveillance.html
- Emerging Infectious Disease Journal: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-0753_article
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036a2.htm
- Twitter: @CDCgov
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)
- Daily National Health Commission updates on outbreak statistics: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/TrackingtheEpidemic.htm
- China CDC Weekly reports: http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/index.htm
Bangladesh's Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control & Research (IEDCR)
- COVID-19 resources (English and Bengali): https://iedcr.gov.bd/covid-19/covid-19-general-information
Brazil's Fiocruz
- Fiocruz COVID-19 homepage (Portuguese): https://portal.fiocruz.br/coronavirus
- Twitter: @fiocruz (portuguese) and @fiocruz_en (English)
Belgium's Sciensano
- Epidemiological situation in Belgium: reports, interactive dashboard and data sets: https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/covid/
- Sciensano’s COVID-19 surveillance activities and research projects: https://covid-19.sciensano.be/fr/projets-de-sciensano (French)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/sciensano
Public Health Agency Canada
- Public Health Agency Canada’s homepage for all COVID-19 resources: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html
Caribbean Public Health Agency
- CARPHA COVID-19 site: https://carpha.org/What-We-Do/Public-Health/Novel-Coronavirus
- Twitter: @CARPHA1
Colombia's INS
- Página de inicio del INS de Colombia para recursos COVID-19 (Spanish): http://www.ins.gov.co/Noticias/Paginas/Coronavirus.aspx
- Twitter: @INSColombia
Italy's Istituto Superiore di Sanità
- Homepage dell'Istituto Nazionale della Salute per l'Italia per le risorse COVID-19 (Italian): https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/
Israel’s Ministry of Health
- Israel’s Ministry of Health homepage for COVID-19 resources: https://www.health.gov.il/English/Topics/Diseases/corona/Pages/default.aspx
Ethiopia Public Health Institute (EPHI)
- EPHI homepage with latest COVID-19 statements: https://www.ephi.gov.et/
- Twitter: @EPHIEthiopia
Germany's Robert Koch Institut
- COVID-19 homepage (English): www.rki.de/covid-19-en
- COVID-19 homepage (German): www.rki.de/covid-19
- Twitter: @rki_de
The Netherlands's National Institute for Public Health & the Environment (RIVM)
- RIVM's general COVID-19 page: www.rivm.nl/en/covid19
- RIVM's COVID-19 questions and in-depth information on specific topics (children, testing, risk groups, work and leisure, face masks, etc.): https://www.rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/in-depth-information
- RIVM's current information and weekly updates on the COVID-19 figures in the Netherlands: https://www.rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/current-information
- RIVM's information about COVID-19 vaccination in the Netherlands: https://www.rivm.nl/en/covid-19-vaccination
- RIVM's questions and answers about the COVID-19 vaccines: https://www.rivm.nl/en/covid-19-vaccination/questions-and-answers
- RIVM's medical information about the COVID-19 vaccination for public and professional. This includes information on efficacy, side-effects, pregnancy, illness and medication, among other things: https://www.rivm.nl/en/covid-19-vaccination/professionals/faq
- RIVM's research on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the Netherlands (modeling, pathogen surveillance, COVID-19 behavioral unit, families and young people etc.): https://www.rivm.nl/en/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/research
- Twitter: @rivm
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH)
- NIPH's homepage for COVID-19 resources: https://www.fhi.no/en/id/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/
- NIPH's facts and advice: https://www.fhi.no/en/id/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/2019-ncov/new-coronavirus---facts-and-advice/
- NIPH's travel advice for COVID-19: https://www.fhi.no/en/id/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travel-advice-for-new-coronavirus/
- NIPH's live map of COVID-19 evidence (no longer updated): https://www.fhi.no/en/qk/systematic-reviews-hta/map/
- NIPH's bibliometric analyses of COVID-19 research: http://covid19biblio.com
- Twitter: @Folkehelseinst
Institut National de Santé Publique Québec (Canada)
- Québec COVID-19 dashboard (French): https://www.inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/donnees
- COVID-19 homepage (French): https://www.inspq.qc.ca/covid-19
- Enjeux éthiques de la pandémie de COVID 19, précaution et déconfinement (French): https://www.inspq.qc.ca/publications/3031-enjeux-ethiques-pandemie-precaution-deconfinement-covid19
Rwanda Biomedical Centre
- Rwanda Biomedical Centre's COVID-19 homepage: https://www.rbc.gov.rw/index.php?id=707
- Home-based isolation and care guidelines for patients with COVID-19: https://rbc.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/annoucement/Guidelines%20for%20home-based%20care_COVID-19.pdf
- Twitter: @RBCRwanda
Public Health Agency Sweden
- Sweden Public Health Agency COVID-19 homepage: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency-of-sweden/
- Sweden Public Health Agency COVID-19 FAQ: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency-of-sweden/communicable-disease-control/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/
- nCoV Frågor och svar (Swedish): https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/smittsamma-sjukdomar/coronavirus/fragor-och-svar-om-nytt-coronavirus/
Spain's Carlos III Health Institute
- Carlos III Health Institute COVID-19 homepage (Spanish): https://cnecovid.isciii.es
UK Health Security Agency
- Official UK government website for data and insights on COVID-19: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
Public Health Wales
- Public Health Wales COVID-19 homepage: https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/latest-information-on-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/
- Welsh National Public Engagement Survey on health and wellbeing during coronavirus: https://phwwhocc.co.uk/covid-19/public-engagement-survey/
- Public Health Wales International Horizon Scanning and Learning work stream, focused on COVID-19 international evidence, experience, measures, transition and recovery approaches. The learning and intelligence is summarised in weekly reports to inform decision-making: https://phwwhocc.co.uk/covid-19/international-horizon-scanning/
- First Welsh Health Equity Status Report initiative (WHESRi) Report - applies an innovative WHO health equity framework to reveal the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on specific groups such as children and young people, women, key workers and ethnic minorities in Wales (U.K.): https://phwwhocc.co.uk/resources/welsh-health-equity-status-report-whesri/
Other Resources
African Society for Laboratory Medicine
- ASLM’s COVID-19 coverage: https://aslm.org/what-we-do/outbreak-coverage/
American Society for Microbiology
- COVID-19 resources: https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2020/nCoV2019-Resources
- Next steps for COVID-19 medical laboratories: https://asm.org/Articles/2020/February/Next-Steps-for-Novel-Coronavirus-Medical-Laborator
World Organization for Animal Health
- Questions and answers on COVID-19 acute respiratory disease: https://www.woah.org/app/uploads/2021/03/a-covid-22-01-2021.pdf
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
- Free collection of COVID-19 publications updated regularly: https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/pages/coronavirus-collection
Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
- JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health Center For Health Security COVID-19 news update page: http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/2019-nCoV/index.html
- Sign up to receive reports on COVID-19 in your mailbox: http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/newsroom/newsletters/e-newsletter-sign-up.html
- JHU Center for Systems Science and Engineering live map of COVID-19 cases - live map tracking cases: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
- COVID-19 Communication Network, which offers resources for social and behavior change professionals to access and share high quality communication materials, tools and resources from global partners to address the COVID-19 pandemic: https://covid19communicationnetwork.org
- COVID Behaviors Dashboard, which presents data from a global survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices around COVID-19, which can be explored for a country or WHO region: https://covidbehaviors.org
Georgetown University
- Training materials, checklists, and other resources for development and strengthening of public health emergency management capacities, with an emphasis on Emergency Operations Centers: https://www.epidemic-em.org
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- COVID-19 resource center: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19
Elsevier
- Elsevier’s free health and medical research on COVID-19: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center
Cochrane
- Cochrane COVID-19 resources: https://www.cochrane.org/coronavirus-covid-19-cochrane-resources-and-news
- Cochrane rapid review on factors that influence whether healthcare workers follow infection prevention and control guidelines for respiratory infectious diseases: https://www.cochrane.org/news/factors-influence-whether-healthcare-workers-follow-infection-prevention-and-control-guidelines
Partnership for Healthy Cities
- Partnership for Healthy Cities COVID-19 Response Center: practical guidance and tools to support cities in four technical areas: https://cities4health.org
Ethics
- WHO guidance for managing ethical issues in infectious disease outbreaks.https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/250580
- Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2020). Research in Global Health Emergencies: Ethical Issues.https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publications/research-in-global-health-emergencies