A webinar to launch this particular challenge might be held on 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:30 CET.

Register for the webinar here.

COVID-19 has revealed the depth and breadth of well being inequities, each inside and throughout nations. Data gathered all through the course of the pandemic has been instructive – not nearly teams left behind, but additionally about how knowledge itself will be marshalled
and made granular sufficient to make sure consideration is paid to core fairness dimensions of pandemic preparedness and administration, reminiscent of inhabitants variations in publicity danger, testing and vaccination entry.

Published within the International Journal for Equity in Health, this particular challenge on COVID-19 and inequalities emphases the analyses, instruments and initiatives of the World Health Organization that allow finer grained evaluation of key measurable inequalities
associated to COVID-19 and efforts to scale back them.

The challenge contains eight articles spanning varied matters and domains from immunization to testing, in addition to details about software program and databases that heighten our analytic skills within the context of COVID19 and its impacts. The content material might be
of curiosity to researchers, analysts and policymakers desirous about monitoring well being inequalities, pandemic response and preparedness, and social determinants of well being to make sure nobody is left behind on the trail to the the Sustainable Development
Goals and WHO’s Triple Billion targets.

Papers embody

• An editorial that describes the motivation behind the particular challenge, all of the contributions, and a number of the insights they provide;
• A paper describing WHO’s COVID-19 surveillance database and the potential it presents for disaggregated analyses;
• A analysis paper on monetary hardship related to COVID-19 testing specializing in age-related inequalities;
• A software program paper describing the options of the most recent model of WHO’s Health Equity Assessment Toolkit, open-source software program that permits the computation of abstract measures of inequalities
• A analysis paper on education-related inequalities in COVID 19 prevention and testing throughout 90 nations, with comparisons throughout nation revenue teams
• A analysis paper on COVID-19 vaccination globally, evaluating well being employee protection to that within the basic inhabitants
• A commentary on the intersection of COVID-19 and incapacity, highlighting the variations in danger of extreme illness, service utilisation experiences and boundaries and a name to motion to verify efforts are actually inclusive of individuals with incapacity
• A Note from the Field contribution that presents preliminary insights and evaluation from a Special Initiative of the WHO on the Social Determinants of Health, which took root on the peak of the pandemic throughout three areas in addition to six pathfinder
  nations and territories

Webinar agenda

Welcome: Stephen Mac Feely, Director, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO

About the particular challenge: Authors of the Special Supplement, together with Lead Editor Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Health Inequality Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO

Open session for questions: Moderated by Devaki Nambiar, Health Inequality Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO