Timeline
Getting Eyes on Coronavirus in Mauritania
In Mauritania, medical students trained in public health practices by our partners are a key part of the country's epidemiologic surveillance system.
During a Pandemic, Addressing Another Leading Killer
COVID-19 has disrupted all aspects of society, including the health care services that hypertension patients depend on to manage their condition. Learn more about how Resolve to Save Lives and partners are adapting to keep up care for hypertension and other chronic diseases.
Health and Education Experts Weigh in on How Schools Can Maximize Health and Safety as They Look to Reopen
Bipartisan former U.S. Secretaries of Education Margaret Spellings and Arne Duncan and Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr. joined us at a live press event to urge Americans to work together and support our children so schools can open more safely in the Fall. Our FAQs for teachers and parents available here.
Addressing Complex Challenges Through Training and Preparation in DRC
In partnership with the Alliance for International Medical Action and the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we've supported COVID-19 trainings for health care workers in over 30 facilities across the country.
Serving COVID-19 Information with a Side of Entertainment
In Haiti, our partners Village Santé and Fokal used a popular radio soap opera.to debunk COVID-19 myths and share tips for preventing spread of the virus.
Protecting Health Care Workers
In a new paper in Health Security, we identify practical steps countries can take to protect health workers, curb COVID-19 and prepare for future epidemics.
Preparation is the Key: Ghana Takes on COVID-19
Our Prevent Epidemics site highlights how Ghana has emerged as a leader on the African continent, quickly marshalling its resources to ramp up testing, support healthcare workers, and provide support and economic relief to communities most in-need.
New Contact Tracing Playbook Supports US Efforts to Contain COVID-19
As the COVID-19 response in the US moves to a new stage of containment, our Contact Tracing Playbook will help cities, states, and counties establish trusted and effective contact tracing programs that will reduce the spread of the virus and save lives.
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Metrics That Matter
Our expert epidemiologists debunked myths about commonly reported COVID-19 data.
New COVID-19 Risk Communication Hub
Clearly communicating risk is fundamental to an effective pandemic response. With Vital Strategies, we launched a new digital platform that provides more than 200 examples of clear messaging that provides more than 200 examples of clear messaging that governments and NGOs can adapt to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Revealing the Toll of COVID-19
With the World Health Organization and other partners, we released a new technical package to help guide governments to conduct rapid mortality surveillance and make informed decisions based on the true impact of COVID-19 in their countries.
COVID alert system unveiled
We released detailed guidance on how countries can communicate their COVID risk level to the public.
4 Key Steps for COVID-19 Contact Tracing
We released an interactive COVID-19 Contact Tracing Playbook that provides clear and actionable technical guidance and tools to for US health departments to rapidly set up and implement contact tracing to support COVID-19 containment.
Lockdown Is a Blunt Tool. We Have a Sharper One.
Our president and CEO Dr. Tom Frieden cowrote a piece for the New York Times on the pivotal role of contact tracing in ending lock down and beginning to reopen society.
New Report Provides African Governments Real-Time Information and Guidance to Find the Balance in COVID-19 Response
We worked with Africa CDC, WHO, and other partners to launch "Responding to COVID-19 In Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance," a report that aims to help decision makers use multiple streams of data to strike a balance between reducing transmission and minimizing social and economic disruption.
New video: Stopping the spread of COVID-19 in Africa
We released a short video on the role of public health and social measures in reducing COVID-19 transmission in the African context.
Past, current and future COVID-19 infections: the size of the iceberg and what tests can and can’t tell us
As COVID-19 epidemic mitigation efforts continue, it is critical to understand how many people have had COVID-19 infection, but testing has its limits. Read more in our weekly COVID-19 science brief.
New: COVID-19 Playbook for Decision-Makers
We launched the COVID-19 Playbook, a resource to help decision-makers manage and adapt COVID-19 responses as they move through different phases of the response from preparedness through recovery. Our technical experts will update regularly as new guidance on COVID-19 is released.
