The first Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker tracks and compares policy responses of governments tackling the coronavirus outbreak around the world. It is designed to systematically record government responses worldwide and aggregate the scores into a common ‘Stringency Index’ which aims to help researchers, policymakers and citizens understand whether increasingly strict measures affect the rate of infection, and identify what causes governments to implement stricter or less strict measures.

Led by Thomas Hale, the project brings together a cross-disciplinary Oxford University team of academics and students, including Anna Petherick, Toby Phillips, and many Blavatnik School students and alumni.