COVID Information Commons
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Conference Grant Programs
Applications accepted on a rolling basis through November 2026.
Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Neurological and Neurocognitive Sequelae from SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 in Aging and Age-Related Neurodegeneration
Applications accepted through May 8, 2023
Notice of Special Interest: Administrative Supplements for COVID-19 Impacted NIMH Research
Applications accepted through June 2, 2023
Emerging Viral Infections and their Impact on the Male and Female Reproductive Tract
Applications accepted through July 16, 2023
Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Applications accepted on a rolling basis through February 5, 2025.
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (July 2022)
The COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on July 15th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists presented their current research on the global pandemic. Event moderators included Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons Principal Investigator (PI), and Lauren Close, […]
Knowledge Graph Embedding Evolution for COVID-19
Guest post by Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. Steven Skiena and Xingzhi Guo presented this research to the COVID Information Commons (CIC) community as part of the February 2022 Lightning […]
CritCOVIDView: A Critical Care Visualization Tool for COVID-19
Guest post by Todd Brothers, University of Rhode Island This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The main goal of this project was to develop a cutting-edge tool, CritCOVIDView, for bedside clinicians interpreting individualized patient data through […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (June 2022)
The June 2022 COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on June 10th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists funded by NSF presented their current research on the global pandemic. Event moderators included Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons Principal […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (April 2022)
The April 2022 COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on April 15th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists funded by the NSF presented their current research on the global pandemic. Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (May 2022)
The May 2022 COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on May 5th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists funded by the NSF presented their current research on the global pandemic. Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (March 2022)
Guest Post: Kenia Pujols Keywords: Pandemic, virtual reality, health, data science, mandates, government, collaboration, diagnostics, depression, social isolation, learning, COVID-19. A recording of this event is available on the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s YouTube Channel and the COVID Information Commons website at covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is an […]
Contact patterns during the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic
Guest post by Eli Fenichel, Yale University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The goal of the project was to bring together mathematics, data science, economic epidemiology, and public health, contributing to all fields by analyzing […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (February 2022)
Post Guest: Haleigh Stewart Four NSF-funded researchers convened on Friday, February 4th, 2022 at the COVID-19 Research Webinar Lightning Talk, marking the 17th event of the webinar series. Organized through the COVID Information Commons (CIC), the COVID-19 Research Webinar series fosters collaboration across different disciplines and provides a virtual platform […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (January 2022)
Guest Post: Kenia Pujols Keywords: Pandemic, STEM, structural biology, crystallography, MARCO polo, COVID-ARC, bibliometrics, health, data science, collaboration, archive, COVID-19. A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube Channel and covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is a NSF-funded project brought to you by the […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (November 2021)
Guest Post: Saanya Subasinghe A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel as well as at covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is an NSF-funded project brought to you by the Big Data Innovation Hubs, led by the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (October 2021)
Guest Post: Isabella Graham Martinez A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel as well as at covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is an NSF-funded project brought to you by the Big Data Innovation Hubs, led by the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub […]
National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards $2 Million for COVID Information Commons Extension for Pandemic Recovery (CIC-E)
New York, NY – October 5, 2021 The COVID Information Commons (CIC) project, a program led by the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub in the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, the South Big Innovation Data Hub, and the West Big […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (September 2021)
Guest post: Brian Buckley, Boston University; Volunteer, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, six researchers studying a wide range of topics on the global pandemic presented their work as part of the ongoing COVID-19 Research Webinar series organized through the COVID Information Commons (CIC). The COVID […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (August 2021)
Guest post: Brian Buckley, Boston University; Volunteer, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub On Wednesday, August 18, 2021, five researchers studying a wide range of topics on the global pandemic presented their work as part of the ongoing COVID-19 Research Webinar series organized through the COVID Information Commons (CIC). The COVID Information Commons is […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (July 2021)
On Friday, July 16th, 2021, five researchers studying a wide range of topics on the global pandemic presented their work as part of the ongoing COVID-19 Research Webinar series organized through the COVID Information Commons (CIC). The COVID Information Commons is an NSF-funded project organized by the Big Data Innovation […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (June 2021)
Watch the full webinar here. On Wednesday, June 9, 2021, six researchers studying wide-ranging aspects of the current pandemic came together as a part of the ongoing COVID-19 Research Webinar series organized through the COVID Information Commons, to share their research and insights with our community. This month’s event featured […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (May 2021)
Watch the full webinar here. On Wednesday, May 19 2021, five researchers studying wide-ranging aspects of the current pandemic came together as a part of the ongoing COVID-19 Research Webinar series organized through the COVID Information Commons, to share their research and answer questions from our community. This month’s event […]
Chocolate to Reduce COVID Spread? Researchers Discuss Their Work in February Webinar
During February’s COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar, researchers, students, and non-profit leaders gathered to discuss and collaborate on research about COVID. The webinar featured talks from seven scientists from across the nation who shared insights on their NSF-funded research. Speakers included Naomi Senehi from Rice University, Nicola Sochacka from the […]
2021 Kicks off with New Insights by COVID-19 Researchers and the Undergraduate Student Paper Challenge
On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, seven scientists from across the nation joined us as part of the ongoing COVID-19 Research Webinar series organized through the COVID Information Commons. During the event, each researcher shared their work, providing new insights regarding the global pandemic and revealed some of the unexpected implications […]
Announcement of Student Paper Challenge and shared insights amongst COVID-19 researchers at the December COVID Information Commons webinar
Over 80 people convened for this month’s COVID webinar, as six NSF Rapid Response Research investigators from across the United States shared their research topics and findings regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge was announced. This month’s presenters included Foad Hamidi (University of […]
COVID-19 researchers share insights at the November COVID Information Commons webinar.
This month’s Covid Information Commons (CIC) webinar brought together researchers, students and leaders in nonprofits. The CIC serves as a platform for researchers and scientists to share knowledge and collaborate on research about COVID. This month, the CIC project team announced the launch of a new feature at covidinfocommons.net: the […]
Researchers share new insights and opportunities for collaboration at October’s COVID Information Commons Webinar
Eight scientists spoke with an enthusiastic community at the second COVID-19 Research Webinar organized by the COVID Information Commons on October 16, 2020. Presenters who shared their latest research findings regarding the current pandemic included Rachel Wu (University of California-Riverside), Sara Rampazzi (University of Michigan), Sarah Bowman (Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research […]
Researchers studying COVID-19 share insights at first COVID Information Commons Community webinar
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5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Cassandra Thiel, New York University
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the US food supply network. Supply chains that were very efficient in meeting the needs of restaurants and supermarkets have had a hard time adapting to changing conditions.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Tracy Van Holt, New York University
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the US food supply network. Supply chains that were very efficient in meeting the needs of restaurants and supermarkets have had a hard time adapting to changing conditions.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Debra Laefer, New York University
We tried to understand to what extent people coming from a COVID-19-infected environment interact with the built and natural environment. Specifically, we wanted to understand in three dimensions what people touched, how much they touched, and where they went coming out of hospitals and urgent care facilities at the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Bernhard Leidner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Our research examines and compares people’s compliance with these measures over time, across diverse national, cultural, and political contexts. Specifically, it focuses on how different value and belief systems influence (non)compliance with containment measures as the pandemic unfolds.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Sarah Bowman, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Understanding the structures of the SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins is essential to understanding its biology, its infectiousness, its transmissibility, and how to develop treatments for it. Our project focuses on enabling the process of structure determination for SARS-CoV-2 proteins.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Amy Pickering, Tufts University
The role of contaminated surfaces (fomites) in community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been debated. Our team is sampling high-touch public surfaces during the ongoing pandemic to improve understanding of the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection when the public accesses essential businesses such as grocery stores, pharmacies, and gas stations.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Leila Hedayatifar, New England Complex Systems Institute
Modeling COVID-19 in the context of optimizing quarantine policy using mobility patterns
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: John Dennehy, Queens College, CUNY
We are attempting to apply approaches developed in microbial ecology to understand how a viral pathogen such as SARS-CoV-2 can survive and be transmitted in academic environments.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Ramesh Raskar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We are designing a public health solution for contact tracing built around digital ecosystems. Our current focus is on improving privacy, user-experience, effectiveness, and adoption of digital contact tracing. With so many issues at forefront, the challenge to solve the contact tracing puzzle is manifold.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Samantha Penta, University at Albany
People’s ability to understand and personalize threats are key in getting them to adopt protective behaviors. COVID-19 presents a serious threat to health. However, unlike threats from other kinds of hazards, the virus does not offer any visible indication of its threat or presence.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Maurizio Porfiri, New York University
We have a detailed transmission model that specifically focuses on the availability of testing strategies and their effect on the containment and spread of COVID-19, which is amenable to the systematic exploration of a wide range of important “what-if” scenarios.
