The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis

Project outline

Professor Lucie Cluver works with The Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19 and Crisis, hosted by and linked to the World Health Organisation to develop up to date evidence of numbers of children affected by COVID-19 associated orphanhood, and to support policy and programming that can mitigate the impacts of COVID on children and adolescents. Members include Dr Susan Hillis (Coordinator), Dr Seth Flaxman (Oxford University), Dr Juliette Unwin (Imperial College London), Prof Christl Donnelly (Oxford University/Imperial College London), Dr Oliver Ratmann (Imperial College London), Dr Samir Bhatt (University of Copenhagen, Imperial College London), Dr Chris Desmond (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal), Dr Alexander Butchart (World Health Organization), Gretchen Bachman (U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)), Dr Andrés Villaveces (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)), Prof Lorraine Sherr (University College London), Prof Charles Nelson III (Harvard University Medical School), Dr Laura Rawlings (World Bank), Dr Philip Goldman (Maestral International) and Phil Green (World Without Orphans)