Research Evidence

Health Data Research UK: COVID-19 evidence

Health Data Research UK have helpfully put together an overview of emerging evidence on many aspects of COVID-19.

Take a look at their infographic here for a brief summary of the latest evidence on understanding vulnerable groups during COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on non-COVID care, use of existing treatments, immunity, testing reliability and symptoms and susceptibility and more.

Systematic Reviews & Rapid Evidence reviews

PROSPERO: International prospective register of systematic reviews

  • Click here for already registered reviews of human studies relevant to COVID-19

  • Click here for already registered reviews of animal studies relevant to COVID-19


Cochrane Library:


National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools at McMaster University


Journal resources

Many top journals in medical research have collated COVID-19 related articles for easy access. Follow the links below for more information

The Lancet COVID-19 Resource Centre

JAMA Network: Coronavirus Disease 2019

British Medical Journal: Best Practice Tool - Coronavirus disease 2019 guidance

Research centres and networks

A number of different research centres and networks have pulled together useful resources and research evidences. Follow the links below for more information


Health Data Research UK:

National Institute for Health Research

Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit

University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit

Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

Public Health England

NICE: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence


Database searches

Using the TRIP: Find evidence fast research database, the following reports were identified relating to COVID-19

Click here to see the search results and follow links for studies from many sources and authors

Interactive resources

The EPPI Centre have created a Living Systematic map of the research evidence on COVID-19 and this is updated frequently. Click the link to learn more

COVID-19 Phenomics have collated a comprehensive, open-access resource providing the research community with information, tools and phenotyping algorithms for defining COVID-19 related phenotypes in UK electronic health records data. Click the link to learn more.