The COVID-LMIC Task Force would like to thank the Wellcome Trust of Great Britain for its generous funding to ensure open access for this series, as well as several individuals for their selfless commitment to ensuring this project's success: our guest editor, Arjen Dondorp, and our project advisors: Neill Adhikari, Emilie Calvello Hynes, Martin Dünser and Mervyn Mer. Lastly, we would like to acknowledge the dedication and support of the AJTMH editorial and support staff, without whom this project would not have become a reality.
GROUP MEMBERS OF THE “COVID–LMIC TASK FORCE”
Heads: Alfred Papali (Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC) and Marcus Schultz (Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location “AMC,” Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
Advisors: Neill K. J. Adhikari (Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada); Emilie J. Calvello Hynes (University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver,CO); Martin Dünser (Kepler University Hospital and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria), and Mervyn Mer (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa).
Subgroup members (in alphabetic order): Andrew Achilleos (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada); Hanan Y. Ahmed (Department of Internal Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Kevan Akrami (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil and University of California San Diego, CA); Lia M. Barros (University of Washington, Seattle, WA); B. Jason Brotherton (AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya); Sopheakmoniroth Chea (Calmette Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia); William Checkley (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Health, Baltimore, MD); Elif Cizmeci (Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada); Natalie Cobb (University of Washington, Seattle, WA); Finot Debebe (Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Addis Ababa University School of Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); Juliana Ferreira (University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil); Gabriela Galli (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA); Tewodros Haile (Department of Internal Medicine,College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University); Bhakti Hansoti (Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD); Madiha Hashmi (Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan); Rebecca Inglis (Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit [LOMWRU], Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic and Department of Intensive Care, Oxford University Hospital Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom); Burton W. Lee (NIH, Bethesda, MD; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA); Faith Lelei (AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya); Ganbold Lundeg (Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulan Bator, Mongolia); David Misango (The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya); Ary Serpa Neto (Department of Critical Care Medicine and Institute of Education and Research, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location “AMC”, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Alfred Papali (Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC); Casey Park (Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada); Rajyabardhan Pattnaik (Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, India); Jennifer L. Pigoga (Division of Emergency Medicine, University of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa); Luigi Pisani (Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Miulli Regional Hospital, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy; Doctors with Africa – CUAMM, Padova, Italy; Mahidol–Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand); Elisabeth D. Riviello (Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA); Kristina E. Rudd (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA); Marcus Schultz (Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location “AMC,” Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Varun U. Shetty (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA); Gentle S. Shrestha (Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal); Chaisith Sivakorn (Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand); Shaurya Taran (Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada); T. Eoin West (University of Washington, Seattle, WA.