Evidence synthesis communities in low-income and middle-income countries and the COVID-19 response

Evidence synthesis specialists have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In line with WHO’s global roadmap for COVID-19 research, 1 we are working to summarise the available research to support evidence-informed decision making across all sectors for immediate and anticipated challenges, within the COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END). COVID-END is an umbrella organisation involving 50 evidence synthesis or evidence support organisations that are working together to promote collaboration and reduce duplication of effort in the conduct and translation of COVID-19-related evidence syntheses. As a network we have accelerated investment to enable infrastructure for evidence synthesis and to promote evidence use. COVID-19 and its related impacts are likely to be felt for many years to come. As the low-income and middleincome country (LMIC) members of a global...