About the Authors
- Isabel Bergeri
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: bergerii@who.int
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Mairead G. Whelan
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Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Harriet Ware
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Lorenzo Subissi
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Anthony Nardone
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Epiconcept, Paris, France
- Hannah C. Lewis
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo
- Zihan Li
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Xiaomeng Ma
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Marta Valenciano
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Epiconcept, Paris, France
- Brianna Cheng
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Lubna Al Ariqi
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt
- Arash Rashidian
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
- Joseph Okeibunor
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo
- Tasnim Azim
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
- Pushpa Wijesinghe
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
- Linh-Vi Le
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines
- Aisling Vaughan
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Richard Pebody
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Andrea Vicari
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas (Pan American Health Organization), Washington DC, United States of America
- Tingting Yan
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Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Mercedes Yanes-Lane
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation COVID-19 Immunity Task Force Secretariat, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Christian Cao
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- David A. Clifton
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Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Matthew P. Cheng
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Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Jesse Papenburg
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Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- David Buckeridge
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Niklas Bobrovitz
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Rahul K. Arora
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Centre for Health Informatics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Maria D. Van Kerkhove
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ IB, MW, HW, and LS share first authorship on this work. NB, RKA, and MDVK are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
- Unity Studies Collaborator Group
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¶Membership of Unity Studies Collaborator Group is provided in
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Competing Interests
I have read the journal policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: RKA, MW, HW, ZL, XM, CC, MYL, DB, JP, MPC, ML, MS, GRD, NI, CZ, SP, HPR, TY, KCN, DK, SAA, ND, CD, NAD, EL, RKI, ASB, ELB, AS, JC and NB report grants from Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force through the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Canadian Medical Association Joule Innovation Fund. RKA, MW, HW, ZL, CC, MYL, NB also report grants from the World Health Organisation and the Robert Koch Institute. RKA reports personal fees from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic Investment Fund, as well as equity in Alethea Medical (Outside the submitted work). MPC reports grants from McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity and Canadian Institute of Health Research, and personal fees from GEn1E Lifesciences (Outside the submitted work), nplex biosciences (Outside the submitted work), Kanvas biosciences (Outside the submitted work). JP reports grants from MedImmune (Outside the submitted work) and Sanofi-Pasteur (Outside the submitted work), grants and personal fees from Merck (Outside the submitted work) and AbbVie (Outside the submitted work), and personal fees from AstraZeneca (Outside the submitted work). DB reports grants from the World Health Organization, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (Outside the submitted work), Institute national d excellence en sante et service sociaux (Outside the submitted work), and personal fees from McGill University Health Centre (Outside the submitted work) and Public Health Agency of Canada (Outside the submitted work). CC reports funding from Sanofi Pasteur (Outside of the submitted work). TY reports working for Health Canada as a part-time Senior Policy Analyst with the COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Panel, from Nov 2020-Jun 2021 (Outside of the submitted work). TH reports funding recieved from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for Columbia University (Outside of the submitted work). Author HCL declares receiving funding as a WHO consultant from WHO Solidarity Response Fund and the German Federal Ministry of Health COVID-19 Research and Development.