The Global Researchers’ Network for COVID-19 focuses on identifying dynamic mechanisms that generated a global pandemic in spreading a virus across communities, organizations, jurisdictions, sectors, and nations. It seeks to understand factors that build collective cognition of risk among whole communities, enabling coordinated action to control a pandemic. It also seeks to explore factors that inhibit such action. The group will model information flows that support collective decision processes.
CONVERGE is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Program on Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.