Top 10 ways QF helped Qatar battle the COVID-19 pandemic

Doha: Despite the pandemic disrupting life in more ways than imaginable, researchers, scientists and the research funding body at Qatar Foundation (QF) immediately mobilized their resources to find ways in which they could best assist the country in responding to the crisis. 

Marking one year since QF announced work-from-home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, QF has shared 10 ways QF helped Qatar battle the COVID-19 pandemic.  Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q) provided vital insights into the nature of the outbreak, its spread, and risk. Prof. Laith Abu Raddad, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at  WCM-Q, has been instrumental in providing the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) with epidemiology analytics which helped shape the national response to the pandemic. He also led several nationwide studies to examine antibody prevalence in different parts of the population and the possibility of COVID-19 reinfections.