The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health crisis the U.S. has ever faced. The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy has marshalled its outstanding network of experts to respond to the crisis in real time, guiding Federal and state leaders through this extraordinarily difficult period. Interdisciplinary faculty and researchers from Duke University, Duke Health System and other leading health organizations are collaborating on vital, evidence-based strategies needed now to address the pandemic.

Duke-Margolis has put forward key policy steps leaders must take to respond comprehensively to the COVID-19 pandemic, to reopen the nation successfully, and create a more secure health care system. At the same time, the Center continues its vital mission to educate tomorrow’s health policy leaders, develop and analyze new data, provide timely thought leadership, and engage the greater public through outreach and education.

Christina Silcox, David Anderson, Anna Zavodszky, Ethan Borre, Susan Dentzer, Mara G. Aspinall, Mark McClellan

Duke-Margolis will convene stakeholders to discuss the status of vaccine development.

Duke-Margolis, in partnership with Catalyst @ Health 2.0, Facebook Data for Good, the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Joint Program on Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland (UMD), and Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, is sponsoring the COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge. In this competition, participants will try to improve early detection and situational awareness of the outbreak using real-time symptom data that Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland have been collecting with Facebook’s help. Duke-Margolis convened researchers and stakeholders for an informational webinar about the Challenge on September 8th. The Challenge is accepting submissions until Tuesday, October , 2020 11:59:59 PM ET. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/symptomdata

Monika Schneider, Nicholas Harrison, Mark McClellan