COVID-19

Strengthening the COVID-19 humanitarian response

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.

COVID-19 research studies

We funded 15 humanitarian health research studies as part of our COVID-19 responsive funding call for proposals.

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.