In this webinar experts and members of the Data Sharing Working Group shared initiatives to promote effective, equitable, and efficient data sharing for COVID-19 clinical research.

In this webinar experts and members of the Clinical Epidemiology Working Group discussed the preparedness and challenges of LMICs to attend patients with post-COVID-19 condition.

Following the coalition’s efforts to increase the representation of researchers from low- and middle-income countries in the ACT-Accelerator Therapeutics Partnership, four coalition members have joined its workstreams. Meet Dr Sauman Singh, from DNDi and IDDO, India, who joined workstream 2.

Where are we today with new and emerging therapeutics that would be both effective and affordable in preventing the progression of mild or moderate COVID-19 and thereby prevent hospitalization? A couple of promising treatments have emerged recently, with early efforts underway to make these drugs more available than COVID-19 vaccines have been. What are the current research priorities, and do current efforts meet the needs? These were the key questions addressed in a recent webinar hosted by the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition.

Following a workshop on access to COVID-19 vaccines, experts from the Global Health Strategy Group for Digital Health and AI for health (an initiative of the University of Oxford), and the Supply & Market Dynamics; Medicine Quality Working Group of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition just issued a report capturing challenges affecting supply, distribution, and access issues for people in low-resource settings.

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Wilber Sabiiti, co-chair of the coalition's Virology, Immunology and Diagnostics Working Group, makes a case for the need to strengthen context-specific evidence generation to guide pandemic strategies. In this Viewpoint, he looks at diverging approaches in Uganda and Tanzania, in their use of national lockdowns.

The COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition is calling for nominations for members of a new Therapeutics Working Group. In low-resource settings, there is relatively little COVID-19 therapeutics research taking place. There is also uncertainty on the future affordability and availability of any proven therapeutics in such settings. A platform to discuss COVID-19 therapeutics in low-resource settings and promote relevant research and priorities would be beneficial. A new coalition working group has been proposed, to fill this gap.

Following the coalition’s efforts to increase the representation of researchers from low- and middle-income countries in the ACT-Accelerator Therapeutics Partnership, four coalition members have joined its workstreams. Meet Dr Nada Melhem, from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, who joined workstream 1 which focuses on rapid evidence assessment of therapeutic candidates.

Excessive bureaucracy has been identified as an obstacle to the conduct of clinical research in many settings. Complex requirements and lengthy processes often delay and sometimes prevent the initiation of research work. In this survey, we sought to gain high-level insights into how researchers and health professionals regard the effects of the various bureaucratic processes and their impact on the conduct of COVID- 19 clinical research.

The COVID Moonshot, a non-profit, open-science consortium of scientists from around the world dedicated to the discovery of globally affordable and easily-manufactured antiviral drugs against COVID-19 and future viral pandemics.