Research Network on COVID-19 for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health
MNCAH Research Network working groups on COVID-19
WHO has been working with its partner networks to develop MNCAH research resources in the context of COVID-19. Several smaller working groups have been created to provide real time technical assistance and guidance.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children working group
Purpose – To harmonize reporting tools, understand clinical characterization across countries and regions, to advise on treatment and understand clinical outcomes
Contact in WHO: Rajiv Bahl (bahlr@who.int), Karen Edmond (edmondk@who.int)
Infant feeding and COVID-19 working group
Purpose – To map and facilitate research collaborations; harmonize analysis and reporting methods; prioritize research questions; and consolidate/disseminate available evidence.
Contact in WHO: Nigel Rollins (rollinsn@who.int)
Child cohorts and COVID-19 working group
Purpose –To harmonize case definitions, develop common core variables to be collected considering different levels of capacity in different settings across the world, harmonize reporting areas on the indirect effects of COVID, harmonize tools to capture the spectrum of illness in children
Contact in WHO: Rajiv Bahl (bahlr@who.int), Ayesha De Costa (deay@who.int), Yasir Bin Nisar (nisary@who.int)
Pregnancy Cohort and COVID-19 working group
Purpose – To convene around the WHO SARS CoV2 -19/pregnancy research protocol and other SARS CoV2 and COVID-19/pregnancy research projects.
Contact in WHO: Chrissy Godwin (cgodwin@who.int)
COVID LENS (Living EvideNce Synthesis) Working Group
Purpose – To convene living systematic reviewers on COVID-19 across MNCAH to standardise approaches, eliminate duplication, promote learning, and facilitate rapid update and use of research evidence in guideline development.
Contact in WHO: Olufemi Oladapo: (mailto:oladapoo@who.int), Yasir Bin Nisar: (nisary@who.int)
Educational Institutions and COVID-19 working group
Purpose – To determine how important COVID-19 transmission is in educational institutions and study the effects of closure or of reopening of educational institutions at different stages of the pandemic on COVID-19 transmission
Contact in WHO: David Ross (rossd@who.int) ; Cc Gersende Moyse (moyseg@who.int)