Volunteer in your local area! Click on the links below for additional details about each opportunity. If you are not already in our general database, Sign Up!
Work with us to expand opportunities for our volunteers!
Become a NSVD state coordinator: We need your help finding and coordinating volunteer opportunities in your area for the scientists in our database. For more information on how to become a NSVD State Coordinator, please fill out this form.
Start a local NSVD chapter as a community organizer: Are you interested in creating a local group of COVID-19 scientist volunteers? If so, please follow the instructions on our website.
Join our policy research team! We are compiling information on CLIA regulations in order to allow our highly skilled volunteers to process diagnostic tests around the nation. Please email romanochristine@nsvd.org if interested.
Expand your portfolio and CV to include Science Communications! Join the Communications team to generate Twitter and Facebook content, or join our writing team to be an author and/or editor for our blog. Interested? Please email us at COVID19SciVolunteers@gmail.com
Liaison for for-profit companies: Several members of the NSVD database are unemployed or at risk of being unemployed in the near future. To help these individuals, we need a volunteer to coordinate communications with for-profit companies who are seeking to hire employees. If interested, please email us at COVID19SciVolunteers@gmail.com
The following government and non-profit organizations have access to the database:
Department of Homeland Security-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Illinois Department of Public Health, Department of Transportation
Idaho Division of Public Health
Wyoming Public Health Laboratory
Island County Dept. of Emergency Management (WA)
Marin County Public Health Laboratory (CA)
Sacramento County Public Health Laboratory (CA)
Translational Genomics Research Institute (AZ)
Georgia State Senate
EndCoronavirus.org
OpenCovid.care (Open Source Pharma Foundation & Cri-Paris collaboration)
Affiliates of the following universities have access to the database:
Yale University (CT)
Howard University (DC)
Michigan State University
University of Maryland School of Public Health
Center for Disaster Risk Policy (Florida State University)
Greater Boston Consortium for Pathogen Readiness (Broad Institute)
EpidemicForecasting.org (University of Oxford)
The following local organizations have access to the database:
Houston COVID-19 Response (TX)
Biomed Tech Rapid Response (NY)
Biomedical Technician Rapid Response Team (Madison, WI)
San Diego COVID-19 Response Volunteers (CA)
LA Fighting COVID (CA)
Connecticut COVID19 Response Network (Storrs, CT)
Rochester Area COVID-19 Response (Rochester, NY)
Dallas Regional Chamber (Dallas, TX)
MichBio.org (MI)
Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit, MI)
Mindi S. Garner, DO, Chartered (Pittsburgh, KS)
Region-specific portions of the database have been shared with:
South Central Regional Medical Center (Laurel, MS)
Region-specific portions of the database have been shared after respondent opt-in with: