Following a successful webinar on Ethics review mutual recognition, the Ethics Working Group of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition is sharing the findings of a project, funded by the World Health Organization, aiming to review the challenges and opportunities of ethics review mutual recognition for COVID-19 multi-site research protocols.

Prof. Francine Ntoumi was recently appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Institute for Research Development (IRD).

Dr Luisa Enria has been awarded the annual Sanjaya Lall Prize for the best article published in the journal Oxford Development Studies in the preceding year's issue.

In response to a Lancet Digital Health Editorial regarding transparency during global health emergencies, the Data Sharing Working Group published a letter outlining the rationale and aims of the group.

A group of clinicians and researchers from all over the world, are conducting a rapid survey about Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) and they need your help! Participations are open until 8 November 2020.

More than ever, we need high quality scientific research to provide the evidence to answer pressing questions on how best to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.

The COVID-19 Data Platform has been established to develop and promote global research collaboration to generate evidence on COVID-19. Nominations for members of the Data Access Committee are now open.

In this Comment published in The Lancet, the members of the coalition argue that international research collaboration and coordination is needed urgently to support African, Latin American, Eastern European, and certain Asian countries to respond effectively to the worsening pandemic and speed up research adapted to resource-limited settings.