Science Responds and CIV: Big Data and Open Science to Combat the Pandemic

Science Responds was established early during the COVID-19 pandemic as a collaborative hub for computational scientists to contribute their skills and experience managing large distributed datasets and research teams to projects focused on combatting the pandemic. Through this effort we organized a series of seminars from different researchers spanning the fields of public health, biomedical, drug discovery, and more and provided a central resource for interested researchers to connect with projects, resources, and information around best practices. This talk will describe the development and activities of Science Responds and in the final portion will provide a deep dive into the COVID Community Vulnerability Index project that was started within Science Responds and has since grown to an international quantitative research project.