The COVID Research Coordination and Learning (CIRCLE) initiative is a partnership between the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) that enables the alignment of research funders towards a coherent effort for supporting COVID-19 research in, for and with low- and middle-income countries.

COVID CIRCLE coordinates funding efforts, connects networks of researchers, and will collate learnings to inform future epidemic and pandemic responses with a focus on lower-resource settings.