RECOVER: Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) created the RECOVER Initiative to learn about the long-term effects of COVID. Help us find answers by sharing your experience and volunteering to participate in research.
Find a study near youRECOVER seeks to understand, prevent, and treat long-term health effects related to COVID. Researchers call these long-lasting effects PASC (post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2). You may know them as Long COVID.
We’re learning by listening to people like you.
To understand Long COVID, we need to hear from people who’ve experienced it and people who had COVID and recovered quickly. You can help us learn about the long-term effects of COVID — so we can find ways to prevent and treat them.
Learn how patients, caregivers, and community members can share their story with RECOVER
We’re learning by including diverse perspectives.
Including people of all races and ethnicities, genders, ages, and locations in our research helps us understand how Long COVID affects everyone.
Learn more about how RECOVER partners with patients and communities across the US
Millions of people have had COVID-19 — and in many ways, people of color have been hit hardest.
Studies show that people of color are more likely than white people to go to the hospital for health issues related to COVID-19.
- American Indian or Alaska Native
- 3.1xMore likely
- Black or African American
- 2.4xMore likely
- Hispanic or Latino
- 2.3xMore likely
- Asian
- 0.8xMore likely
We learn more when we work together.
We learn more when we work together.
Teamwork is at the heart of RECOVER. Researchers, health care professionals, and organizations across the country are working together to find answers. Our studies include many different groups of people — like adults, pregnant people, and children and their caregivers.
More than
500 million
people around the world have had COVID. It’s possible that millions of them could have long-term health effects.
Recover News and Events
Learn about our latest research, upcoming events, and more.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting applications through this ROA for clinical trials in those over 18 years old for the prevention and/or treatment of PASC as part of the NIH RECOVER Initiative. The NIH is seeking proposals for clinical trials testing a range of interventions and using diverse methods to address symptoms/symptom clusters and the underlying mechanisms of the pathobiology of PASC. Trial proposals should reflect community and patient engagement. Funding will utilize NIH’s Other Transaction Authority (OTA). Please direct all inquiries to: NHLBI_OTA@mail.nih.gov.
A technical assistance webinar for this ROA was held on Friday, May 6th, 2022.
Watch the Technical Assistance Webinar
Slides from Technical Assistance Webinar (PDF, 1.01 MB)
Summary of FAQs Received by NIH about the Clinical Trials ROA (PDF, 174 KB)
The R3 Seminar series hosted an event on March 22: Clinical Spectrum of PASC: An Overview. Panelists for the seminar included: Hannah Davis, Co-Founder, Patient-Led Research Collaborative; Benard P. Dreyer, MD, FAAP, Professor of Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine; Sindhu Mohandas, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California; and Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Emory University. A recording of the seminar and audio transcript are now available.
RECOVER-supported study uses machine learning models with electronic health record data from nearly 100,000 patients to identify potential Long COVID patients.
The full RECOVER research protocol, or study plan, for adults taking part in RECOVER studies is now available. We are finished planning the adult study protocol, but the protocol may change over time as we learn more. If the protocol is updated, we will share it on the RECOVER website, recovercovid.org. A version of the protocol in easier to understand language will be available soon.
Explore COVID-19 Resources
Find COVID-19 research information and resources.
studies.recovercovid.org
