COVID 19 - World Health Organization Collaborating Centre On Investment for Health and Well-being

During the Coronavirus-19 pandemic, it was clear that such dramatic changes to people’s live would have profound repercussions for their immediate and long term mental and physical health. We required new information on how people were coping with greater isolation, restrictions on their movements and less access to services. We needed to understand how other countries were coping with new ways of living and working, learn from them and help them learn from us. Furthermore, although the pandemic was the predominant concern for people and public health professionals, we still needed to ensure that other existing and potential threats to people’s health were monitored, assessed, and addressed as the pandemic progressed. The Policy and International Health Directorate focused on informing policy options for an optimum balance between virus control measures and the potential negative impacts of COVID-19. We did this through systemised intelligence and monitoring to understand the trends and learning through a variety of workstreams