Covid-19 Platform
Get scientific insights on the coronavirus by World Health Summit's academic network, the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies. It is an international association of 28 excellent universities, research institutions in 19 countries, and the medical branches of national academies of science in 130 countries.
This platform aims to share scientific insights on the corona (COVID-19) pandemic by the individual M8 members: National experience with the virus which can help other countries, research which might be important for other scientists, or data on the virus.
The M8 Alliance is confident, that clear, accurate communication is crucial for a worldwide strategy in managing this pandemic. Only with cooperation and mutual assistance beyond borders this global health crisis can be tackled - we are all together in this.
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M8 Alliance Statement
COVID-19 Information by M8 Alliance Members:
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
The Graduate Institute Geneva
Imperial College London
InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
- Academy Response to COVID-19
- CALL FOR GLOBAL SOLIDARITY ON COVID-19 PANDEMIC from the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
- September 24, 2020 | "COVID-19! How can I protect myself and others" teaches students in Mexico how to stay safe
- September 17, 2020 | Lancet COVID-19 Commission Statement on the occasion of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly
- August 10, 2020 | IAP launches COVID-19 Expert Group
- July 7, 2020 | COVID-19 Recovery must be green, says world academies network
- May 21, 2020 | IAP and Smithsonian Science Education Center With Support of the World Health Organization Launch New Covid-19 Guide for Youth
- April 27, 2020 | Open Letter to the UN: Health Inequity during the Pandemic: A Cry for Ethical Global Leadership
- April 22, 2020 | Recommendation of the Hungarian Academy of Science on the management of the COVID-19 epidemic in the short and long term
- March 14, 2020 | Machine learning for rapid triaging of Covid-19 at the front door of hospitals: request for data
- March 13, 2020 | IAP stands side-by-side with science in the fight against coronavirus
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/research-action/covid-19
- June 17, 2020 | A call for precision in coronavirus disease case reporting: a crucial step more important now than ever
- May 14, 2020 | Mortality impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak by sex and age: rapid mortality surveillance system, Italy, 1 February to 18 April 2020
Makerere University
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Monash University

National Taiwan University
- March 19, 2020 | Evolving reporting criteria of COVID-19 in Taiwan during the epidemic
- March 04, 2020 | Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan
National University of Singapore
- The COVID-19 Chronicles
- Registration for monthly webinar "COVID-19: Updates from Singapore" (Thursday, starting from 26 November 2020 at 7pm SGT/1pm CET)
- http://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/latest-covid-19
- May 2020 | MediCine Issue 34
- March 24, 2020 | Factsheet COVID-19
- March 24, 2020 | The COVID-19 Chronicles
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Information on COVID-19 concerning the M8 Alliance Focus Topic Migrant and Refugee Health
- www.medguide.world
- Info Document on MedGuide Corona
- August 27, 2020 | Moral Disengagement and Generalized Social Trust as Mediators and Moderators of Rule-Respecting Behaviors During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- March 31, 2020 | https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30791-1/fulltext?rss=yes
- March 30, 2020 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlSBkFQdgoM
- http://www.refugeehealthnetworkqld.org.au/news/
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- April 20, 2020 | The role of universal health coverage in overcoming the covid-19 pandemic
- April 5, 2020 | COVID-19 Pandemic and Comparative Health Policy Learning in Iran
- April 1, 2020 | COVID19 Prevention & Care; A Cancer Specific Guideline
- March 31, 2020 | A field indoor air measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in the patient rooms of the largest hospital in Iran
- March 17, 2020 | COVID-19 battle during the toughest sanctions against Iran