Our response to COVID-19

Building evidence, sharing knowledge, promoting safety during COVID-19

IGHI has launched a number of national and global COVID-19 programmes to help health systems and governments better respond to the ongoing crisis.

Explore our highlighted projects below.

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Community COVID-19 testing

We're helping to lead a major programme of home testing for COVID-19 to track the progress of the infection across England. Working with colleagues across the College and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we're building the vital evidence we need to underpin home COVID-19 testing and facilitate a greater understanding of how far the coronavirus has spread.

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COVID-19 behaviour tracker

We launched a global survey with YouGov to track how people are behaving in response to the coronavirus pandemic. By gathering and openly sharing this data, we aim to enable governments and health systems to better plan their strategies to tackle the COVID-19 crisis.

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Young people's mental health

We're leading a project to find out how 16-24-year-olds in the UK are coping and managing their mental health during and after COVID-19 lockdown.

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Supporting people affected by dementia

Our Helix Centre is building a resource to help groups and individuals who support people affected by dementia to get online and reconnect during the COVID-19 related isolation and beyond.

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Early warning system

We're working with our collaborators at the University of Oxford to develop a risk-prediction tool for GPs to help them spot people with COVID-19 who could develop severe disease. This will help patients access the treatment they need faster, and hopefully lead to better outcomes.

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Preventing future health emergencies

How can we protect the world from experiencing another COVID-19? We're supporting The Trinity Challenge, a global coalition focused on finding data-driven innovations to better identify, respond to and recover from global health emergencies.

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Home oximetry for monitoring COVID-19

We've been working with NHS Digital and NHS England to evaluate the use of remote monitoring in the care of patients with COVID-19 at home. Our programme has been investigating whether pulse oximetry could help clinicians to identify deterioration in patients with a new diagnosis of COVID-19.

Click here to read our publication in BMJ Open.

Click here to read our publication in Lancet Digital Health.

Use this link to read the study protocol: CO@H protocol

Use this link to read the findings of our evaluation: CO@H evaluation: interpretation of findings (PDF).

Use this link to read findings from our evaluation of pulse oximetry in care homes, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham: Pulse oximetry in care homes during the COVID 19 pandemic (PDF)