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# COVID Community Action Summit
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/covid-community-action-summit/
- Published: 1999-01-02T14:37:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-20T02:36:42.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #event, Event, COVID-19

The **COVID Community Action Summit (CCAS)** was a virtual event held from January 26-28, 2021.

## Participants

CCAS was co-hosted by:[\[1\]](#fn1)

- COVID Action Group
- [COVID Survivors for Change](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-Survivors-for-Change)
- [COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-National-Scientist-Volunteer-Database)
- [EndCoronavirus](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/EndCoronavirus)
- Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG)
- MakeGoodTogether
- MaskTogetherAmerica
- New England Complex Systems Institute
- Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG)
- Research-Aid Networks
- [Zero COVID Alliance](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pandemic-Aid-Networks)

### Speakers

| Name                                                                     | Affiliation                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Tara Macolino (moderator)                                                | EndCoronavirus, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)                                                                                                                |
| Katie Marsh (moderator)                                                  | EndCoronavirus, World Health Network (WHN)                                                                                                                                   |
| Derrick VanGennep (moderator)                                            | EndCoronavirus, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)                                                                                                                |
| Desmond Alugnoa                                                          | Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)                                                                                                                                       |
| Michael Baker                                                            | University of Otago                                                                                                                                                          |
| Yaneer Bar-Yam                                                           | New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)                                                                                                                                |
| Tyson Francis Belanger                                                   | Shady Oaks Assisted Living                                                                                                                                                   |
| Joaquín Beltrán                                                          | Speak Up America                                                                                                                                                             |
| Naftali Bennett                                                          | Prime Minister of Israel, Israeli Ministry of Defense, Yamina                                                                                                                |
| Olga Buchell                                                             | New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)                                                                                                                                |
| Zacarias Bustos                                                          | Sanatorio Francés                                                                                                                                                            |
| Edward Campbell                                                          | Safeguard Surveillance                                                                                                                                                       |
| Joshua Cohen                                                             | COVID Action Group                                                                                                                                                           |
| Tomás de Camino                                                          | LEAD University                                                                                                                                                              |
| Danielle DeWaal                                                          | [COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-National-Scientist-Volunteer-Database)                                       |
| Stephen Duckett                                                          | Grattan Institute                                                                                                                                                            |
| Blake Elias                                                              | New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)                                                                                                                                |
| [Eric Feigl-Ding](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Eric-Feigl-Ding) | Federation of American Scientists (FAS)                                                                                                                                      |
| Sinéad Ní Fhaoláin                                                       | Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG)                                                                                                                                 |
| Peter Frazier                                                            | Cornell University School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE), Uber                                                                                    |
| Robert Greenhill                                                         | Global Canada                                                                                                                                                                |
| C'Pher Gresham                                                           | Seed Spot                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Deepti Gurdasani                                                         | Queen Mary University of London                                                                                                                                              |
| Steven Hassan                                                            | Freedom of Mind Resource Center                                                                                                                                              |
| Harold Hastings                                                          | Bard College at Simon's Rock                                                                                                                                                 |
| Leila Hedayatifar                                                        | New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)                                                                                                                                |
| Christina Holt                                                           | Community Tool Box, University of Kansas Center for Community Health and Development                                                                                         |
| Mary Irwin                                                               | The Makeup Standard                                                                                                                                                          |
| Tiffany James                                                            | Justice James Consulting                                                                                                                                                     |
| Jose-Luis Jimenez                                                        | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)                                                                                                         |
| Patricia Kearney                                                         | University College Cork                                                                                                                                                      |
| Jerome Kim                                                               | International Vaccine Institute (IVI), [Vaccine Innovation Prioritisation Strategy](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Vaccine-Innovation-Prioritisation-Strategy) (VIPS) |
| Chris Kocher                                                             | [COVID Survivors for Change](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-Survivors-for-Change)                                                                               |
| Ariel Koren                                                              | Respond Crisis Translation                                                                                                                                                   |
| Julie Lam                                                                | MaskTogetherAmerica                                                                                                                                                          |
| Heidi Larson                                                             | Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Washington                                                                   |
| Vincent Law                                                              | [COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-National-Scientist-Volunteer-Database)                                       |
| Michelle Lukezic                                                         | MakeGoodTogether                                                                                                                                                             |
| Joaquin N. Lugo, Jr.                                                     | Baylor University                                                                                                                                                            |
| Aoife McLysaght                                                          | Smurfit Institute of Genetics                                                                                                                                                |
| Eric Nixon                                                               | MakeGoodTogether                                                                                                                                                             |
| Santiago Nuñez                                                           | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)                                                                                                                               |
| Irene Petersen                                                           | University College London (UCL)                                                                                                                                              |
| Kimberly Prather                                                         | Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE)                                                                                                           |
| Tomas Pueyo                                                              | Course Hero                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Jeremy Rossman                                                           | Research-Aid Networks, University of Kent                                                                                                                                    |
| Meir Rubin                                                               | Kohelet Policy Forum                                                                                                                                                         |
| Tomás Ryan                                                               | Trinity College Dublin                                                                                                                                                       |
| Kevin Schallert                                                          | [COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-National-Scientist-Volunteer-Database)                                       |
| Elizabeth Semper                                                         | Asociación Covid Persistente España (ACPE)                                                                                                                                   |
| Aistis Šimaitis                                                          | Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania                                                                                                                        |
| Anthony Staines                                                          | Dublin City University (DCU)                                                                                                                                                 |
| Jason Thompson                                                           | Melbourne School of Design                                                                                                                                                   |
| Vicky van der Togt                                                       | [Zero COVID Alliance](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Pandemic-Aid-Networks)                                                                                           |
| Ian Town                                                                 | [Ministry of Health New Zealand](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Ministry-of-Health-New-Zealand)                                                                       |
| Matthew Wellington                                                       | Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG)                                                                                                                                   |
| Michael F. Wells                                                         | [COVID-19 National Scientist Volunteer Database](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/COVID-19-National-Scientist-Volunteer-Database)                                       |
| Roy Wilkes                                                               | Zero Covid UK                                                                                                                                                                |
| Lindsey Williams                                                         | The Makeup Standard                                                                                                                                                          |

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=covid%5Fcommunity%5Faction%5Fsummit)

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1. *COVID Community Action Summit.* New England Complex Systems Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20221114183649/https://necsi.edu/c-cas#orgs> [↩︎](#fnref1)