How can I get involved?

  • Scalable interventions
    • Promotion of COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and other mitigation practices or behaviors in high-risk populations requires multi-faceted, population and setting specific approaches to address the nature of the risks.
    • Secondary health impacts are broad and the existing healthcare workforce cannot likely adequately respond, particularly where there were existing health disparities. Community and digital health interventions are needed.

What is the Interventions Workgroup’s progress to date?

  • Developed and published the digital health and community health Interventions NOSIs.
  • Funded 15 digital health and 9 community health supplements in FY20. Funded 31 R01 projects from both the community and digital health PARs in FY21.
  • The funded community health studies sought to test community interventions focused on the prevention (or slowing) of COVID-19 transmission, evaluate local and state policies and programs intended to mitigate COVID-19 exposure and improve adherence, and reduce the negative impact of the multifaceted consequences on the health of populations who experience health disparities and other vulnerable groups. The funded digital health studies sought to develop novel COVID-19 digital health interventions. For more information on the studies, please refer to the “Funded Projects” tab under “Research Network”.
  • Developed and published digital health and community interventions PARs for FY21.

What is the Data Science Workgroup’s area of focus?

  • Supplement Longitudinal Studies
    • Provide funding and data harmonization guidance to urgent competitive and administrative supplements in response to various SBE supplement NOSIs.
  • Rapid Research on COVID-19/Economic Health Impacts
    • Support research on the impact of COVID-19 and the economic downturn from mitigation interventions on mortality and health.
  • COVID-19 Population Research Network
    • Stimulate population research on near and longer-term impact of  COVID-19 and mitigation on health.

What is the Data Science Workgroup’s progress to date ?

  • Developed guidance to establish expectations for data harmonization and sharing. 
  • Awarded supplement to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) to conduct economic research on COVID-19.
  • Supplemented research with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to conduct disparities research on COVID-19. Published JAMA article with 360,000+ views.
  • Developed two FOAs to support research and to establish a data coordinating center.
  • Developed SBE use cases to support research and data science initiatives.
  • Initiated pilot project with the COVID-19 Data Coordination and Warehouse team to support the acquisition of large population data sets to support COVID-19 research.
  • Funded 28 longitudinal studies supplements in FY20.
    • The funded studies sought integrative, data-science efforts utilizing existing longitudinal datasets and cohorts to conduct SBE research on the COVID-19 pandemic, mitigation efforts and associated economic effects to both short and long-term clinical and public health outcomes on large representative samples. For more information on the studies, please view the "Browse All Projects" page. 
  • Stood up a data coordinating consortium that allows funded research efforts to come together and share findings and resources to improve research outcomes.