COVID-19: Stories, Insights, Expertise

Whether you're a community member, one of our alumni, or a University of Minnesota student, here you’ll find stories, insights, and expertise to support you during the COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19: Stories, Insights, Expertise

Whether you're a community member, one of our alumni, or a University of Minnesota student, here you’ll find stories, insights, and expertise to support you during the COVID-19 crisis.

News

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Top of Mind episode 2: Looking back on 2020 and forward to new initiatives

Top of Mind is a podcast series highlighting the issue of mental health at the University of Minnesota.

Talking with U of M

Talking critically-needed blood donations with the U of M

U of M Medical School Professor Claudia Cohn explains why donating blood today is needed now more than ever and how choosing to give could equip those donors with new information about their exposure to COVID-19.

Expert Alert

COVID-19 vaccines, misinformation and attitudes

Professor Panayiota Kendeou and Associate Professor Emily Vraga, are available to comment about how the COVID-19 vaccines fit into the overall attitudes toward vaccination and how to address misinformation.

News Release

Researchers discover new way to deliver DNA-based therapies for diseases

Polymers could be used to create less expensive gene therapies or vaccines for diseases.

Mfangano Island, Aimee Carlson, and Neamatallah Elsayed

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Students help provide COVID-19 information to remote island residents

Two students helped create and implement a COVID-19 information campaign for residents on an island off the coast of Kenya. And they did it all over Zoom.

A Hmong elder, dressed i purple with a knit cap and mask, looks down.

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Communicating with at-risk Somali, Latinx and Hmong elders

A U of M team breaches the language barrier to deliver vital COVID-19 information.

All COVID-19 News

COVID-19 Podcasts

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Health in All Matters

Listen to episodes from the School of Public Health's weekly podcast series "COVID-19: When a pandemic sweeps the modern world."

3D illustration of planet with red laser-like lines indication global spread of COVID-19

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CIDRAP COVID-19 Podcast

From "How We Got Here" to "Smart Testing," listen to all of the timely podcasts from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.

In the News

crowded street seen from high up, with illustration overlaid of grid shapes indicating potential virus spread

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Experts

U of M experts offer insights, expertise, and support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are just some of the faculty and staff involved in these efforts.

Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

Melissa Kenney - Associate Director for Knowledge Initiatives

Associate Director of Knowledge Initiatives, Institute on the Environment, Twin Cities

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

See All COVID-19 Experts

COVID-19: Stories, Insights, Expertise

COVID-19: Stories, Insights, Expertise

News

Top of Mind episode 2: Looking back on 2020 and forward to new initiatives

Talking critically-needed blood donations with the U of M

COVID-19 vaccines, misinformation and attitudes

Researchers discover new way to deliver DNA-based therapies for diseases

Students help provide COVID-19 information to remote island residents

Communicating with at-risk Somali, Latinx and Hmong elders

COVID-19 Podcasts

Health in All Matters

CIDRAP COVID-19 Podcast

In the News

Osterholm provides overview on COVID-19

University of Minnesota tackles COVID-19 pandemic

Minnesota’s reckoning with race and policing was many years in the making

Research: Scanning wastewater could offer advance warning of COVID - or other viruses

Chancellor of University of Minnesota's Morris campus to retire at end of academic year

Experts

Alan Lifson

Melissa Kenney

Steven Saliterman

Donate to COVID-19 Relief Funds

#UMNproud

COVID-19 Resources