Royal Society: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

The Royal Society has signed a Wellcome statement on the subject of research findings and data relevant to the coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak. We are one of several signatories to this statement and our collective aim is to ensure that the relevant research and data are shared rapidly and openly in order to inform the worldwide public health response and to help save lives. This special collection comprises some papers likely to be relevant to the outbreak.

We have also published a number of theme issues in this area:

• Multi-scale dynamics of infectious diseases
• Dynamic and integrative approaches to understanding pathogen spillover
• Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: approaches and important themes
• Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: epidemic forecasting and control
• One Health for a changing world: zoonoses, ecosystems and human well-being
• New vaccines for global health
• After 2015: infectious diseases in a new era of health and development
• Biological challenges to effective vaccines in the developing world
• The origin and control of pandemic influenza
• Emerging infections: what have we learnt from SARS?
• Towards the endgame and beyond: complexities and challenges for the elimination of infectious diseases
• Opening the black box: re-examining the ecology and evolution of parasite transmission