COVID-19

Virus particle surrounded by red blood cells

COVID-19 has altered almost all aspect of "normal" life. Our teams are working in the UK and around the world to address this truly global challenge. As noted by Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, "Until we are all safe, no one is safe". 

The challenges of COVID-19 are many, from surveillance and diagnostics, to treatment and vaccines, to mental health and mourning, to economic and social recovery. You can learn all about all the ways our researchers are working to address all the issues surrounding COVID-19 on the University's dedicated COVID-19 research pages linked in the "Learn More" section and here you can learn how our teams are specifically tackling this challenge in the Global South.

Where this research is happening at UofG

School of Social & Political Sciences

School of Education

School of Cancer Sciences

School of Health & Wellbeing

School of Critical Studies

School of Geographical & Earth Sciences

School of Social & Environmental Sustainability

School of Infection & Immunity

School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine

MRC-UofG Centre for Virus Research

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COVID-19 Research at UofG

A woman in green scrubs and a yellow head wrap gestures to an audience in a classroom, with a powerpoint presentation behind her on the wall.
A woman in green scrubs and a yellow head wrap gestures to an audience in a classroom, with a powerpoint presentation behind her on the wall.

Using new approaches to gain a better understanding of COVID-19 in Malawi

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:07:00 BST

A cooperative approach to developing methods to understand new diseases and securing community support to study them.

Entrances to several shops, including a butcher with meat hanging outside, in Uganda
Entrances to several shops, including a butcher with meat hanging outside, in Uganda

Whose crisis?: The global COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of communities in Africa

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:27:00 GMT

This project addresses this imbalance of representation and positions our Southern partners centrally as agents of change within the volatile environment of the COVID-19 crisis.

High-rise buildings, many under construction, along a river in Chongqing, China
High-rise buildings, many under construction, along a river in Chongqing, China

Understanding Chinese government containment measures and their societal impacts

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:57:00 GMT

Given the apparent success of Chinese measures for controlling COVID-19, other countries may consider adopting them. Yet we do not fully understand China’s measures — which extend well beyond health and clinical management — or their effects.

Fish pens in a canal surrounded by steeps hills in northern Vietnam
Fish pens in a canal surrounded by steeps hills in northern Vietnam

Social and environmental impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Vietnamese provinces bordering China and Laos following border closure

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:29:00 GMT

This research will achieve impact locally, by providing scientific evidence to local and national policy-makers as to the situation of vulnerable communities and of their environment.

Group photo of UofG, SCIAF and Quibdo Diocese staff members
Group photo of UofG, SCIAF and Quibdo Diocese staff members

Community-led response to COVID-19 in Colombia

Mon, 24 May 2021 15:35:00 BST

The University of Glasgow partnered with the Diocese of Quibdó and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF) to understand the effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic in Chocó and to develop an effective collective response.

Venezuelan research team carrying out solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), to produce COVID peptides
Venezuelan research team carrying out solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), to produce COVID peptides

Surveillance and modelling tools to understand & evidence the COVID-19 outbreak

Mon, 24 May 2021 16:26:00 BST

By supporting Venezuelan scientists to undertake disease surveillance and modelling in the absence of state infrastructure, the main objective of this project was to mitigate the health consequences of Venezuela’s rapid economic decline in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.