As the world resumes its productive activities, China's experience of a substantial improvement in air quality during lockdowns can inform future economic transformation and innovation towards more environmentally friendly solutions.

Governments have been communicating with the public about the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of ways. In China, provincial-level jurisdictions have recorded similarities in responsiveness and significant variation in format.

There will be no return to the status quo ante after COVID-19, because the pandemic has changed too many things. The challenge for the coming year is to move forward by redesigning and reimagining the domains of work, politics, public health, and economic policy.

The second largest state in the US also has the highest number of counties. Collecting and coding policies for 245 counties has been (and still is) a mammoth effort worth making, writes Kaitlyn Green.

A memo on the political barriers to COVID-19 response informed the 2021 Global Preparedness Monitoring Board annual report. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker team share some insights into their analysis.

Lessons learned from the Policy Challenge II-COVAX course simulated negotiations.

How do we incentivise vaccine take-up? A few behavioural science insights.

The second wave of COVID-19 in India and why nobody is surprised – a personal insight into India's policies on the pandemic.

Takeaways from the COVID-19 Government Response Tracker's guest speakers.