Journal article
The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium: A Call to Action
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, Vol.29(7), pp.1283-1289
07/2020
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0606
PMCID: PMC7357669
PMID: 32371551
Abstract
The rapid pace of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19) pandemic presents challenges to the real-time collection of population-scale data to inform near-term public health needs as well as future investigations. We established the COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) consortium to address this unprecedented crisis on behalf of the epidemiology research community. As a central component of this initiative, we have developed a COVID Symptom Study (previously known as the COVID Symptom Tracker) mobile application as a common data collection tool for epidemiologic cohort studies with active study participants. This mobile application collects information on risk factors, daily symptoms, and outcomes through a user-friendly interface that minimizes participant burden. Combined with our efforts within the general population, data collected from nearly 3 million participants in the United States and United Kingdom are being used to address critical needs in the emergency response, including identifying potential hot spots of disease and clinically actionable risk factors. The linkage of symptom data collected in the app with information and biospecimens already collected in epidemiology cohorts will position us to address key questions related to diet, lifestyle, environmental, and socioeconomic factors on susceptibility to COVID-19, clinical outcomes related to infection, and long-term physical, mental health, and financial sequalae. We call upon additional epidemiology cohorts to join this collective effort to strengthen our impact on the current health crisis and generate a new model for a collaborative and nimble research infrastructure that will lead to more rapid translation of our work for the betterment of public health.
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- Title: Subtitle
- The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium: A Call to Action
- Creators
- Andrew T Chan - Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsMichael E Ernst - College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IowaDavid A Drew - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsLong H Nguyen - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsAmit D Joshi - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsWenjie Ma - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsChuan-Guo Guo - Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsChun-Han Lo - Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsRaaj S Mehta - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsSohee Kwon - Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsAlpa V Patel - American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GeorgiaLynn Rosenberg - Slone Epidemiology Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MassachusettsMarina V Magicheva-Gupta - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsShreela V Sharma - Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Science, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, TexasDale P Sandler - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North CarolinaLaura D Kubzansky - Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsAnnie N Cowan - Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MassachusettsZahra S Fatehi - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsAnusila Deka - American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GeorgiaShepherd H Schurman - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North CarolinaLorelei A Mucci - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsLynne R Wilkens - Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HawaiiJacqueline J Flynn - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsJane C Figueiredo - Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPaul W Franks - Department of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Lund University, Malmo, SwedenJorge E Chavarro - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsSebastien Ourselin - Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College, London, United KingdomBrianna M Leonardo - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsChristopher D Gardner - Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CaliforniaA Heather Eliassen - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsIrene M Ghobrial - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsJaime E Hart - Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsJanet W Rich-Edwards - Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsChristopher A Haiman - Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Epidemiology and Genetics Division, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CaliforniaJae Hee Kang - Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsChristine M Albert - Department of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CaliforniaJanet E Hall - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North CarolinaDaniel R Sikavi - Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsKarestan C Koenen - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsMingyang Song - Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsSandra L Deming-Halverson - Social & Scientific Systems, Durham, North CarolinaGabriella Andreotti - Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MarylandBrenda Kirpach - Hennepin Health Care Research Institute, Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research, Minneapolis, MinnesotaMeir J Stampfer - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsJames V Lacey Jr - Division of Health Analytics, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope, Duarte, CaliforniaLaura E Beane-Freeman - Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MarylandLoïc Le Marchand - Cancer Center, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HawaiiCatherine R Marinac - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsMaria Elena Martinez - Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CaliforniaBijal A Balasubramanian - Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Science, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, TexasRoger L Milne - Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJohn S Brownstein - Computational Epidemiology Group, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MassachusettsAnne M Murray - Hennepin Health Care Research Institute, Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research, Minneapolis, MinnesotaDenis Nash - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, New YorkClaire J Steves - Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College, London, United KingdomFiona Bruinsma - Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJulie R Palmer - Slone Epidemiology Center, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MassachusettsWalter C Willett - Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsJonathan Wolf - Zoe Global Limited, London, United KingdomTim Spector
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention, Vol.29(7), pp.1283-1289
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0606
- PMID
- 32371551
- PMCID
- PMC7357669
- ISSN
- 1055-9965
- eISSN
- 1538-7755
- Grant note
- U01 HL146204 / NHLBI NIH HHS Z01 ES044005 / Intramural NIH HHS Z01 CP010119 / Intramural NIH HHS UG3 AI133675 / NIAID NIH HHS U01 CA164974 / NCI NIH HHS UM1 CA164974 / NCI NIH HHS P30 ES000002 / NIEHS NIH HHS UM1 CA186107 / NCI NIH HHS U01 HL145386 / NHLBI NIH HHS R01 CA058420 / NCI NIH HHS L30 CA209764 / NCI NIH HHS U01 AI096299 / NIAID NIH HHS ZIA ES102945 / Intramural NIH HHS K01 DK120742 / NIDDK NIH HHS Z01 ES049030 / Intramural NIH HHS U01 CA176726 / NCI NIH HHS R24 ES028521 / NIEHS NIH HHS U01 CA164973 / NCI NIH HHS R01 HL091069 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/2020
- Academic Unit
- Family and Community Medicine; Pharmacy Practice and Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984066345002771
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