COVID-19 Resources

IPHAM's Center for Community Health & Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) have initiated an open, crowdsourced Chicago COVID-19 Resource Repository to support community organizations and members in the Chicagoland Area.

If you find anything missing, feel free to add.

There are tabs at the bottom of the sheet for:

• COVID-19 Info
• Physical/Mental Health
• Housing & Food
• Financial/Legal
• People with Substance Use Disorders
• Communications/Internet
• Childcare/Education
• Volunteer/Donate
• Free entertainment/culture
• Other Resources

Visit the Chicago COVID Coalition website

Ongoing activities:

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)

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

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

Collect, aggregate, and forecast information about supply chain burn rates and projected bottlenecks within and across facilities to help anticipate and prevent supply shortages

Secure and share ‘real-time’ pragmatic clinical data to identify emerging treatment innovations that may improve patient outcomes

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

Community engagement in COVID19 research: If you are developing a community or population health research project focused on COVID19, the Center for Community Health can provide consultations on community-engaged research designs and strategies to engage stakeholders throughout the research process. We can also help facilitate connections for academic-community research partnerships. You can contact us for a consultation here: https://redcap.nubic.northwestern.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=NHMCRLC8W9

The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) has developed three resources to help community-academic research collaborations consider and address the impact of COVID-19 on health equity and their research projects and partnerships.

1. Community Document for Sharing Ideas, Questions, & Resourceson the same topic to facilitate open sharing of additional ideas and questions. Any one is able to add and share.
2. Vvirtual Discussions on the same topic. ARCC is also hosting this virtual zoom gathering to facilitate sharing and discussion of experiences, ideas, and challenges. Open to any interested community and academic partners.

Other Resources from ARCC Partners:

• Illinois Dept Public Health PPE survey for CBOs
• CCH & Partners Chicago COVID-19 Resource Repository
• PCORI's Response to COVID - 19

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This is a selection of published research and opinion pieces by researchers at Northwestern. If you would like to add anything, please email ipham@northwestern.edu.

• "Awareness, Attitudes, and Actions Related to COVID-19 Among Adults With Chronic Conditions at the Onset of the U.S. Outbreak: A Cross-sectional Survey"
  by Michael S. Wolf, PhD, MPH, MA, et al
  April 9, 2020. Original Research in Annals of Internal Medicine.
• "If it comes to rationing, I shouldn’t have to be the one deciding who should live and who should die"
  by Kelly Michelson, PhD, director of IPHAM's Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
  April 2, 2020. Opinion in STAT.
• "Supporting the Health Care Workforce During the COVID-19 Global Epidemic"
  by James G. Adams, MD; Ron M. Walls, MD
  March 12, 2020. Viewpoint in JAMA.
• "First known person-to-person transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the USA"
  by Isaac Ghinai, MBBS, et al
  March 13, 2020. Article in the Lancet.
• "Social distancing puts most vulnerable for health disparities at risk"
  by Erin Talati Paquette, MD, JD, MBe
  March 16, 2020. Opinion in The Hill.
• "What if Two COVID-19 Victims Need Ventilators and Just One Is Available?"
  by Rupali Gandhi, MD & Angira Patel, MD
  March 16, 2020. Opinion in Scientific American.
• "Commentary: Our resilience and empathy will carry us through this coronavirus crisis"
  by Morton Schapiro, PhD, President of Northwestern University
  March 17, 2020. Opinion in the Chicago Tribune.

We've gathered tools and resources for children, parents, and school administrators. Thanks to the team from IPHAM's Center for Food Allergy & Asthma Research for compiling this list. 

Links

• Talking with children about Coronavirus Disease 2019: Messages for parents, school staff, and others working with children
  Source: CDC
• Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19Source: CDC
• Taking Care of Your Emotional Health (Also in Spanish)
  Source: CDC
• COVID-19 FAQS FOR KIDS
  Source: Children’s National
• Podcast: Stress and anxiety in the time of COVID-19 (recorded 3/11/20)
  Source: Harvard Medical School 

Handouts

• Talking With Children: TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS DURING INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS
  Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration
• Handwashing and Hand Sanitizer
  Source: CDC
• Source: British Columbia Children’s Hospital
• Template for schools to send home to parents to coach them on talking to kids about Coronavirus
  Source: International School Counselor Association

Videos for Kids

• Just for Kids: A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus from NPR modified for Scarlett Middle School
• How to wash your hands! Brain-Pop Videos on many related topics

Parental Resources for Child Stress/Anxiety

• Talking to Children About COVID-19 (coronavirus): A Parent Resource 
  Source: National Association of School Psychologists

Guidance for School Administrators

• School Information
  Source: CDC
• Educators Well-being Tips 
• Comprehensive Table of Scientific Information for School Counselors
  Source: International School Counselor Association

Mental Health and COVID-19

• Video for parents talking to kids about CoronaVirus
• Ways to Cope with Coronavirus-anxiety
• Serious Mental Health Concerns and Coronavirus
• Mindfulness for Young Children (snow globe/1 minute)
• Mindfulness for Parents (1 minute)

Parent Resources

• Websites for Technology Use while students are at home - what might be good screen time?
• Podcast:  NPR - What parents need to know
• What to do with kids/social distancing at home 

Coronavirus & Chronic Conditions

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): What People With Asthma Need to Know

 

The Galter Library team has developed and launched a number of resources and workflows to support COVID-19 efforts at Northwestern University:

COVID-19 Evidence Search & Synthesis Service

• Fast-track COVID-19 searches on topics such as healthcare workforce safety, patient care, materials science, policy, supply chains, ethics, legal and regulatory issues, media and more.
• Requests are 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. Results from completed searches are available.
• Evidence synthesis briefs can be requested on this form and will be completed by a team of volunteers on campus with experience in these domains. We’re grateful for their assistance.

Access the Literature

• A COVID-19 Relevant Papers folder on Google Drive (papers and guidelines) has been established and is actively curated by Galter librarians. If you know of a paper you’d like to add, please use our “Suggest a Resource“ form.
• Through the Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative, COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications, and the available data supporting them, will be made immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other appropriate public repositories to support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts. Several publishers have responded to the call and are working with NLM to make their coronavirus-related articles discoverable and accessible through PMC and facilitate text mining and secondary analysis through machine-readable formats and licenses.
• View the latest articles and research resources in the COVID-19 Resource Guide. 

Find COVID-19 Resources

The Northwestern COVID-19 Resource Guide is now available, containing the latest COVID-19 content, tools, data and relevant scholarly resources from a wide range of publishers and content providers curated by Galter Library. Use the “Suggest a Resource“ form to suggest tools, data aggregators, dashboards, etc., to include on the guide.

Preserve and Share

• Help facilitate sharing and information discovery through the Chicago COVID-19 Collection. This is a great way to share datasets, analyses, visualizations, white papers, slides, etc., relevant to COVID-19 activities and track access/use of your materials. All materials, regardless of collection, are discoverable through Zenodo.
• Upload your research materials directly to the collection (first, sign in or create a Zenodo account), or fill out the form for assistance with deposit.

If you have questions about these or any other Galter Library services and resources, please reach out. Right now, email is the best way to contact us. Stay safe and healthy!

All resources and services remain uninterrupted at Galter Library and have transitioned to remote workflows. Learn more about how to access resources, services and classes.

NUCATS is maintaining a page that is compiling funding opportunities as they are released by the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies. 

Visit the NUCATS COVID-19 Funding Opportunities page.

Michael F. Wells, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, has developed a simple form to create a national database of scientists located in the United States who are ready and willing to deploy their advanced skills, expertise, and access to reagents/equipment towards the fight against COVID-19 in their local communities.

"The goal is to distribute this database to organizations, state/county health officials, universities, and hospitals throughout the country looking for assistance in recruitment efforts as they scale up testing capacities. In other words, we are simultaneously centralizing by aggregating our nation’s talent pool into one database and de-centralizing by dispersing access of the database to those who can turn our energy into concrete action at the local level."

Size of list as of 03.24.20 at 8:15 AM: 6,400 scientists from 49 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH BOTH SCIENTISTS (TO FILL OUT THE FORM) AND HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS (TO GET ACCESS TO THE DATABASE).

Fill out the form

Request access to the database