From 11-12 February 2020, Professor Sir Ali Zumla, Professor Francine Ntoumi, Professor Sarah Edwards and Professor Giuseppe Ippolito joined world experts on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters to assess the current level of knowledge about SARS-CoV-2, agree on urgent research questions and ways to work together to accelerate and fund priority research.
According to the report “Experts identified key knowledge gaps, and research priorities and shared scientific data on ongoing research, thereby accelerating the generation of critical scientific information to contribute to the control the COVID-19 emergency.”