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Join the collaboration! Interdisciplinary teams are critical to address this urgent challenge. We’re looking for professionals with medical, data, project management, community outreach experience, and more to join the collaboration!
Sign Up! COVID-19 Coalition Collaborators
Sign up via the collaborator sign-up sheet button (below) if you're interested in helping with the response effort. We are looking for professionals with medical, data, project management, community outreach experience. Please click the drop down arrow (to the right) to see which workstreams will support key approaches and to identify where you can help.
Engage stakeholders to identify information needs, data sources, ideas for solutions, and preferred communication channels (clinicians; health system supply chain leaders/managers; public health agencies; manufacturers; elected officials)
W6: Public Response to COVID Measures
Mobilize knowledge, technical expertise, networks, data, and technologies into work streams that coordinate to identify and develop new tools and resources to inform decisions and actions by stakeholders
W1: COVID CDM Team: EHR-based Data
W2: COVID CDM Team: Primary Data Sources
W8: Evidence Search and Synthesis
Develop prediction models for COVID spread and the subsequent need for hospital care, supplies, public health agency responses, and public policies for containment and mitigation
W7: Epidemiological Modeling
W9: Patients Like Me with AI ML Enabled Precision Medicine
Collect, aggregate, and forecast information about supply chain burn rates and projected bottlenecks within and across facilities to help anticipate and prevent supply shortages
W5: Supply Forecasting
W10: Resource Optimization (Not Yet Created)
Secure and share ‘real-time’ pragmatic clinical data to identify emerging treatment innovations that may improve patient outcomes
W11: Clinical Advances (Not Yet Created)
W8: Evidence Search and Synthesis
WXX: Research Communities (Not Yet Created)
Identify, develop, and support tools and processes to share data, knowledge, and ideas across stakeholder groups in ways that accelerate innovation and adoption of novel treatment and mitigation approaches that help avoid supply shortages and improve patient treatment and outcomes
W4: Visualization and Early Analysis
COVID Response Collaborators Data Use Needs
Sign up here if you're interested in using data (EHR data, patient primary data, hospital resource and supply data) for relief efforts or research.
Chicago COVID-19 Github Organization
Chicago COVID-19 teams can discover, share, collaborate, and build here. A great way to share code and software projects including analytics, data dashboard projects, and more. For more information, please contact kristi.holmes@northwestern.edu.
Evidence Search & Synthesis Service
Literature and evidence searches in support of the Chicago COVID-19 Response Team on topics such as healthcare workforce safety, patient care, materials science, policy, supply chains, ethics, legal and regulatory issues, media, and more.
Requests will be received by Galter Health Sciences Library and completed by expert searchers from Galter Library, Northwestern University Libraries, and Pritzker Legal Research Center through a strong cross-campus collaboration. Searches will be prioritized based on urgency as determined by the NU COVID Collaborators.
Galter Health Science Library COVID-19 Resource Guide
Clearinghouse of the latest COVID-19 content and relevant scholarly resources from a wide range of publishers and content providers curated by Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center. Keep current with the latest articles, rapid reviews, and guidelines or access freely available professional resources from publishers and content providers, including freely available clinical point of care tools on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.
All resources and services at Galter Library remain uninterrupted and will be maintained at their current levels. Learn more about how to access services and classes at Galter Library here.
Chicago COVID-19 Repository
For preserving and sharing research outputs and information objects that may be relevant to local COVID-19 activities. Users are encouraged to upload their outputs in this collection to facilitate sharing and discovery of information. This open resource is housed in Zenodo.
Upload your research materials directly to the collection or fill out the form for assistance with deposit.
To start: Sign in using your ORCID or GitHub, or create a Zenodo account. Once you sign in, visit the deposit page where you can drag-and-drop files or select via your browser. Follow additional prompts.
COVID-19 Bioethics
If you are interested in joining a coalition dedicated to the bioethics around COVID-19, please contact Kelly Michelson, MD, MPH, (kmichelson@luriechildrens.org) and Bryan Morrison (bryan-morrison@northwestern.edu) at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine.