COVID-19 Projects
Find out about some of our COVID-19 projects led by colleagues from across the institute and our partners.
The Wellcome Trust COVID-19 questionnaires helping standardise COVID-19 data collection across cohorts.
A consortium of population health researchers, led by researchers at University of Bristol and Edinburgh, have developed several COVID-19 questionnaires. They are designed to help researchers explore changes using the same validated questions to the lives of cohort participants in the UK and elsewhere.
The questionnaires are freely available to population health researchers to...
Characterise and quantify the biological, social and environmental drivers of medium-term health outcomes following infection with...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Paul Elliott (Imperial College London). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key COVID-19 research question.
Remote-by-Default Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: addressing the challenges of a radical new service model
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Trisha Greenhalgh (University of Oxford). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key COVID-19 research...
Enhancing the Utilisation of COVID-19 Testing in Schools Studies: The Joint Analysis of the ONS COVID-19...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Rachel Denholm (University of Bristol). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key COVID-19 research question.
CovPall-Connect. Evaluation of how palliative and end of life care teams have responded to COVID-19: Connecting...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Irene Higginson and Mevhibe Hocaoglu (King’s College London). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key...
How can healthcare data be connected with wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 in a privacy-preserving fashion to...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Sarah Bunney and Till Hoffmann (Imperial College London) The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key...
What are the relative contributions of different exposures and settings to COVID-19 community transmission? Analysis of...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Andrew Hayward (UCL). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key COVID-19 vaccine research question.
Ethnicity and COVID-19: investigating the determinants of excess risk
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Kamlesh Khunti and Tom Yates (University of Leicester). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key...
Uptake and comparative safety of new COVID-19 vaccines by age, sex, region, ethnicity, comorbidities, medication, deprivation,...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Julia Hippisley-Cox (University of Oxford). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this key COVID-19 research...
How is COVID-19 impacting women and men’s working lives in the UK?
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Tracey Warren and Luis Torres-Retamal (University of Nottingham). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to answer this...
Is exposure to airborne fine and ultrafine particulate matter a determining factor in COVID-19 infection and...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Kevin Wyche, Kirsty Smallbone, Rebecca Cordell, Georgios Maniatis, Anna Hansell, Paul Monks (University of Brighton). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health...
Economic scarring from the COVID-19 induced crisis: monitoring inequality in economic and education outcomes
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Lee Elliot-Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin (London School of Economics). The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use national data to...
Can we enable harmonised, near real-time, data on pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccines using routinely collected linked...
The successfully awarded research project through a rapid funding call by Health Data Research UK, Office for National Statistics and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is led by Professor Aziz Sheikh (University of Edinburgh) and Lay Leads Jillian Beggs and Antony Chuter. The research project is building on existing UKRI and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) work to use...
Collecting COVID-19 data and samples in a way that enables global research (ISARIC-CCP project)
Data-driven clinical trial to find a treatment for COVID-19 (RECOVERY trial)
Examining the DNA of the COVID-19 virus to find ways to tackle it (COG-UK project)
Analysis of text written by doctors in medical notes of patients with COVID-19
Understanding how blood samples can reveal causes and indicators of susceptibility to COVID-19
Risk calculator to show how underlying health conditions affect mortality rates in COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19: Share your knowledge and expertise
Find out how you can contribute your knowledge to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.