The coalition's Social Science Working Group and co-signatories have published a viewpoint on vaccine equity, arguing that a temporary TRIPS waiver is needed for COVID-19 vaccines and other medicines. Vaccine inequity is amongst the most significant social justice issues of our generation, and it poses a major threat to the global COVID-19 response. Urgent action is needed to improve equity and bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, including in low- and middle-income countries.

Dr Brenda Okware, Scientific Coordinator of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition, was recently featured on Canada's Most Listened-to Radio Program, The Current hosted by Matt Galloway on CBC Radio. She discussed recent COVID-19 developments in Uganda as well as equitable access to vaccines in low- and middle-income countries.

PLATCOV is a phase 2 platform study assessing antivirals in early COVID-19 disease. It is looking for sites to be able to rapidly set up and recruit into this platform trial within 4 months, for an 18 month period. The study is run out of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand, led by Professor Sir Nicholas White and sponsored by the University of Oxford. The study has funding and is ready to begin.

The coalition convened a meeting of the coalition’s expert working groups with key funders to present projects developed in response to a shortlist of identified priority research questions.

All members were invited to attend the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition’s Members Assembly in June, a large participatory online event that was convened for the first time a year after launching the coalition.

The coalition’s Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Working Group conducted a research priority-setting exercise to identify global research priorities in maternal, reproductive and child health. Members of the working group shared the results in this webinar.

Group of emergency physicians advocates rapid and simple measures to reduce medical oxygen wastage in crisis context of insufficient oxygen.

An article published today in The Lancet calls for urgent collaboration and coordination for unmet, underfunded COVID-19 research priorities in low-resource settings.

This meeting brought together global research funders with the community of researchers who are actively undertaking this research across low- and middle-income countries.

In this webinar, experts and members of the Clinical Epidemiology Working Group give a brief overview of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from resource-limited settings.