COVID-19 Research and Innovation Achievements

Overview

This report provides a summary of global research initiatives and achievements to tackle COVID-19 agreed at the outset of the pandemic.

Within a few weeks of declaring COVID-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), WHO published a coordinated global research roadmap, identifying the knowledge gaps the world urgently needed scientists to fill to find solutions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourteen months later, research on most of the knowledge gaps has been initiated, is progressing and has provided answers to several of the knowledge gaps identified in the roadmap. Most notably, Research and Development (R&D) has delivered safe and efficacious COVID-19 vaccines at an unprecedented speed.

In this report, we measure research progress on all the knowledge gaps, and identify key R&D achievements and the gaps that still exist.