Operational challenges and considerations for COVID-19 research in humanitarian settings: A qualitative study of a project in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan

• Jennifer Majer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jlmajer@internationalmedicalcorps.org

  Affiliation International Programs Department, International Medical Corps, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7257-8835

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• Kelechi Udoh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Programs Department, International Medical Corps, Juba, South Sudan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-6161

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• Arsene Beleke,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Programs Department, International Medical Corps, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Dugisye Ahmed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Programs Department, International Medical Corps, Juba, South Sudan

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• Deepak Kumar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Programs Department, International Medical Corps, Juba, South Sudan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5525-6765

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• Aimee Summers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Response and Recovery Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Mija Ververs,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• the IMC-CDC COVID-19 Research Team ,

  ¶Membership of the Research Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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• Iris Bollemeijer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Programs Department, International Medical Corps, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Shannon Doocy

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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