Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…

How has the work of designers, so central to everyday life and society at large, been impacted by COVID-19? Museum of Modern Art curator Pa…

Plots describing the effect of COVID-19 in Mexico in terms of spending and employment 

Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…

Jaleesa Trapp talks to Brittney Gallagher about how she works to create equitable spaces for STEM learning experiences.

The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.

Leveling the education playing field under COVID-19...and beyond.This event is presented by The HEAD Foundation, a Singapore-based foundati…

IEEE-EMBS 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks. 

Yuan, Y., Jahani, E., Zhao, S. et al. Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks. Commun Phys 6, 206 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01325-7

MIT resources for students, staff, and faculty.

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.

Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.

In this project we seek to combine data sources to understand the effect of the shock of COVID-19 as well as the recovery dynamics.  W…

A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.

Computational modeling yields a protein fragment that could bind to coronavirus spike proteins and destroy them.

Saturday April 4, 2020 …

Ramesh Raskar and Sandy Pentland present approaches and projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

​ TAs:Angela Vujic (avujic@mit.edu)Mina Khan (minakhan@media.mit.edu)Note: Prior approval of instructors requiredComputers and smartph…

An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group

Bradshaw, W., Alley, E., Huggins, J., Lloyd, A., & Esvelt, K. (2020). Bidirectional contact tracing is required for reliable COVID-19 control. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.06.20093369

D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, PLOS ONE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252315

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.

We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives

Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.

Read the FAQ that accompanies the op-ed by Kevin Esvelt and Carolyn P. Neuhaus, which answers questions about the research they're proposing

This large-scale holistic video understanding workshop is organized with KIT, ETH Zurich, KU Leuven, Uni. Bonn, and Fac…

Friday April 17, 2020 …

A team from MIT has designed disposable face shields that can be mass produced quickly to address hospitals’ needs nationwide.

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.

Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776

We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outcom…

Yabe, T., Bueno, B.G.B., Dong, X. et al. Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters. Nat Commun 14, 2310 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37913-y

Across the Media Lab community, spinoffs, alumni, researchers, staff members, and more have responded to the COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19 has over only a few short months resulted in the deaths of >400,000 people worldwide (as of mid-June 2020) and has forced many …

To date, two Media Lab projects have received RAPID grants for work related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Three most promising PPE solutions selected by expert judges on MIT Pandemic Response CoLab.

Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.

Team designs antibody-like receptor proteins that can bind to cytokines, as possible strategy for treating coronavirus and other infections.

To help explain how this works is Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at MIT’s Media Lab.

Online meetings are not worse than in-person, and they can even be better in many ways, but they are definitely different.

The Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is seeking participants for a paid study on the impacts of social distancing policies…

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named 19 new HHMI Investigators, including Synthetic Neurobiology head Ed Boyden.

A system that enables smartphones to transmit “chirps” to nearby devices could notify people if they have been near an infected person.

Hua, Yining*, Hang Jiang*, Shixu Lin, Jie Yang, Joseph M. Plasek, David W. Bates, and Li Zhou. "Using Twitter Data to Understand Public Perceptions of Approved versus Off-label Use for COVID-19-related Medications." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2022). *Equal Contribution.

N. Oliver, et al.(2020) Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, Science Advances, pp.1-10. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0764

DAMS: Meta-estimation of private sketch data structures for differentially private COVID-19 contact tracing, Praneeth Vepakomma, Subha Nawer Pushpita and Ramesh Raskar, PPML (Privacy Preserving Machine Learning workshop) at NeurIPS