Médecins Sans Frontières and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative hosted a webinar to discuss the implications of the TRIPs waiver proposal for Africa, and why countries should support it.

Prof. Francine Ntoumi was recently appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Institute for Research Development (IRD).

Dr Luisa Enria has been awarded the annual Sanjaya Lall Prize for the best article published in the journal Oxford Development Studies in the preceding year's issue.

The COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition and PHEPREN (Public Health Emergency and Response Ethics Network) hosted a webinar to share the findings of a project undertaken in collaboration with the Ethics Working Group to review the challenges and opportunities of ethics review mutual recognition for COVID-19 multi-site research protocols.

ORAS-CONHU hosted a webinar about the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition with speakers from the coalition’s Steering Committee and several expert working groups. Available in English and Spanish.

In this webinar, scientists from Brazil, India, Thailand, and the US discuss the ethics, safety, and justification for evaluating hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to prevent COVID-19, in a context of guidance having been recently issued by the World Health Organization to halt the use of these drugs to treat the disease.

The Social Science Working Group organized a webinar on social science research and community engagement in vaccine clinical trials in low-resource settings. This is the first of a three-webinar series on the social science of vaccine development and deployment.

In response to a Lancet Digital Health Editorial regarding transparency during global health emergencies, the Data Sharing Working Group published a letter outlining the rationale and aims of the group.

The Virology, Immunology & Diagnostics Working Group organized a webinar to provide an update on the various COVID-19 diagnostics and their applications, and comment on some of the challenges of their use in low-resource settings and related research questions.

A group of clinicians and researchers from all over the world, are conducting a rapid survey about Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) and they need your help! Participations are open until 8 November 2020.