COVID-19 Resources

Now more than ever we care about the strength of our communities. We at the Northeast Big Data Hub hope that you and your loved ones are well and taking all precautions against COVID-19. Below, we share with you a growing list of COVID-19-related resources, funding opportunities, networks and virtual events, compiled and curated by us and our partners. If you want to do something but don’t know what, read this list for ideas. If you have ideas to share, please contact us. Be well.

Last Updated: September 18, 2020

We are excited to introduce the COVID Information Commons, an open website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts. Visit covidinfocommons.net to learn more.

Funding for COVID-19 Research

• NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grants
  • FAQs
• Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grants
  • Google Cloud Announcement
• NIH COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
• NSF International COVID-19 Funding Initiatives Spreadsheet
• National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Alliance COVID-19 Grants
• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Joint Research Program
• United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation COVID-19 RAPID Grants
• COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF): Outpatient Clinical Trials for COVID-19

Awarded NSF RAPID Grants for COVID-19 Research by Directorate

• Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Geosciences
• Engineering
• Biological Sciences
• Education and Human Resources
• Office of the Director
• Full List

Organizations and Networks

• data-against-covid.org – Emerging collaboration between data scientists & medical professionals/life scientists
• COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium – Led by OSTP; includes academic, industry, national labs, and agency partners; resources coordinated by XSEDE
• Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN) – A collaboration to ensure COVID-19 source data is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and make them available for reuse in a distributed manner
• Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group
• COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database
  • Access with an Amazon Web Services account
  • Join the database
• National Center for Data to Health COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
  • Instructions and details for workstreams
    • Data Partnership and Governance
    • Phenotype and Data Acquisition
    • Data Ingestion and Harmonization
    • Collaborative Analytics (Clinical Scenarios and Data Analytics, Tools and Resources, Portal and Dashboards)
  • NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Call for Administrative Supplements and Emergency Competitive Revisions from current Clinical and Translational Science Award recipients (Accepting applications for N3C Participation)
• Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
• High Performance Computing Infrastructure in Japan
• Science Advice for Policy by European Academies

Datasets

North America

• Columbia University Libraries Health Data Resources
• CORD-19: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset by the Allen Institute for AI
  • SciSight: A Visualization Tool for CORD-19
• 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE
• US Digital Response for COVID-19
  • About This Project
• Academic Data Science Alliance COVID-19 Resources
• Google Cloud Public COVID-19 Dataset Program
• RPI COVID-19 Modelling Resources
• C3.ai COVID-19 Data Lake
  • About This Project
• SafeGraph COVID-19 Data Consortium
• Galaxy: Best Practices for COVID-19 Analysis – Genomics, Evolution, and Cheminformatics
• HealthMap COVID-19 Map and Data
• Jupyter Notebooks and Python Scripts for Investigating COVID-19
• Availability of ICU Beds in the U.S. by County
• NIH COVID-19 Open-Access Data and Computational Resources
• Dolt COVID-19 Dataset
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) COVID-19 Data Repository
• Medium Towards Data Science COVID-19 Open-Source Dashboard
• Exposure to Air Pollution and COVID-19 Mortality in the United States
• Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) COVID in Boston Database
• COVID-19-Net Knowledge Graph (Location, Population, Epidemiological, and Biological Data)
• COVID-ARC: COVID-19 Data Archive
• Esri Canada COVID-19 Resources
• Government of Canada COVID-19 Data Portal
• International Science Council COVID-19 Global Science Portal

South America

• Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology Directory of Open Access Scientific Information Sources on Coronavirus

Europe

• Lean European Open Survey on SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients (LEOSS) Public Dataset
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Epidemiological Update
• European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) COVID-19 Data Portal
• European Data Portal COVID-19 Coronavirus Data
• SPARC Europe Coronavirus Open Access Scientific Resources

Asia

• China National Center for Bioinformation Novel Coronavirus Resource

Australia

• Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) COVID-19 Data Resource Repository
• Australia COVID-19 Real-Time Report Dashboard and Data

Africa

• Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

Guides and References

• NSF Coronavirus Information
• Coronavirus Tech Handbook
• COVID-19 Resource List for Non-profits
• Guide to Crisis-Managing a Creative Company
• Open Collaboration on COVID-19
• MetroLab Network Living, Growing COVID-19 Resource Guide
• HHS: FAQs for Hospitals, Hospital Laboratory, and Acute Care Facility Data Reporting
• The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program COVID-19 Guide
• TRIPOD Checklist for Prediction Model Development and Validation
• Ontology for COVID-19 Cases and Patient Information
• The Infectious Disease Ontology in the Age of COVID-19
• CONVERGE (University of Colorado Boulder) COVID-19 Resources (Opportunities, Working Groups, Events)

Virtual Events

Upcoming:

• Environmental Health Matters Initiative Virtual Workshop: Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (August 26-27, 2020)
• UC San Diego COVID-19 Data Challenge: Navigating Life and Work in Border Communities (Kickoff Meeting August 27, 2020, 12:00 PM ET)

Past:

• Northeast Big Data Hub Monthly Webinar: Launch + Demo of the COVID Information Commons (July 15, 2020, 3:00-4:00 PM ET)
• Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) COVID-19 Research Synergies Meetings (July 16, 17, 20, 21 and 23, 2020, 12:00-3:00 PM UTC)
• ConversEU Live Conference: Discussing COVID-19 European Challenges and Opportunities (May 28, 2020, 9:00 AM ET)
  • Register for live Zoom event and Q&A
  • View livestream on YouTube
• Boston Area Research Initiative Spring Conference 2020
  • Opening Keynote: “The Other Impacts of Corona” (April 24, 3:30 PM ET)
• VODAN GO FAIR Webinar Series
  • “An Introduction to the Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN)” (April 1, 8:30-9:30 AM PT)
  • “VODAN-Africa / Training of Trainers (ToT)” (April 8, 9:00-10:00 AM PT)
  • “VODAN: FAIR Data Work in Action” (April 15, 9:00-10:00 AM PT)
  • “Fighting COVID-19 by Mining Insights from Heterogeneous Datasets” (April 22, 9:00-10:00 AM PT)
• Webinar: Ed Felten – “COVID-19, Technology, Privacy and Civil Liberties” (April 16, 3:00-4:30 PM ET)
• MetroLab Network Kitchen Table Talks (March 31, April 3, 7, 10)
• MIT COVID-19 Challenge (April 3-5, Apply by April 1st)
• Trusted CI COVID-19 Virtual Town Hall

For more information about upcoming virtual events, visit our event calendar.

News

• U.S. Department of State G7 Science and Technology Ministers’ Declaration on COVID-19 (May 28, 2020)