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COVID-19
Find out all about our research and innovation work in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
As COVID-19 began to spread around the world, the humanitarian community worked to respond to the impact the pandemic would have on those already affected by crises, and the most vulnerable communities. The pandemic brought new challenges for researchers, innovators and humanitarian actors at local, national and global levels.
Here you can find out about our work supporting the humanitarian sector to respond to these challenges, including our latest learning and updates.
Particularly we focus on the outputs from our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) programme’s Responsive Call on COVID-19, which launched in March 2020.
This page is continually updated as findings are received and our COVID-19 response work grows.
This was an urgent funding call for robust public health research proposals that will contribute to the effectiveness of the current humanitarian response to COVID-19 and increase the evidence base for future responses to similar infectious disease outbreaks.
The selected studies cover a diverse range of topics, outlined below by theme. Visit their study profiles to find out more including their findings, recommendations and outputs.
Social science behavioural research (nine studies)
If you want to learn more about the COVID-19 responsive funding call or our R2HC studies, please get in touch with the team via email at r2hc@elrha.org.
Tools & research to support COVID-19 response
See all the latest outputs, tools and evidence from our funded research studies to support the humanitarian sector’s response to COVID-19 on our Tools and Research page.
You can find blogs on our Medium. Here we share insights from our team on funding rapid research in response to COVID-19, conducting research in a pandemic and research uptake in a COVID-19 world.
How can community needs inform outbreak response in humanitarian settings?: This webinar in June 2022 provided insight into new evidence relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic in several humanitarian crisis settings. It focused on the priorities, needs and perceptions of people affected by humanitarian crises and how new evidence on their needs, and new tools for collecting this evidence, can be used and applied during outbreak response.
Pragmatism and innovation – collecting data in fragile situations during COVID-19: This webinar – which we co-hosted with the Institute for Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University in October 2020 – shared practical lessons learned on data collection while conducting research in humanitarian and otherwise fragile situations, particularly during COVID-19.
Below you can find news from our funded studies and projects related to COVID-19, as well as relevant updates from our team.
As COVID-19 continues to impact the world, organisations and communities are dealing with challenges on an unprecedented level. Through our Support Hub we’ve been sharing some of the resources and guidance created across the humanitarian community, as well as relevant tools and resources from us.
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