Abstract

Churchill's portrait Melanie, March 2020 was selected as the cover image for the Wellcome Global Monitor 2020: Covid-19, a major international research report published by Wellcome in November 2021. The report, produced in partnership with Gallup, surveyed more than 119,000 members of the public across 113 countries and territories on the impact of the pandemic on their lives and their views about science. The image was credited to Churchill with a direct quote on p2.

The Wellcome Global Monitor Project team at Wellcome: Lara Clements, Philomena Gibbons, Ethan Greenwood, Richard Hartlaub, Matthew Hickman, Lily Ickowitz-Seidler, Alice Jamieson, Imran Khan, Kate Martin, Melissa Paramasivan, Pri Perera, Andrew Thompson and Will Tucker. The Wellcome Global Monitor Project team at Gallup: Lance Stevens, Steve Crabtree, Pablo Diego-Rosell, Rebecca Dover, Andrew Dugan, Hania Farhan, Beatrice Locatelli, Julie Ray, Andrew Rzepa and Anne Schulte. Gallup and Wellcome would like to thank all members of the public who took the time to answer our questions. Both organisations would like to extend special thanks to Professor Patrick Sturgis from the London School of Economics. We would also like to thank the following contributors: Professor Martin W Bauer (London School of Economics), Agnes Binagwaho (Vice-Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity), Cary Funk (Pew Research), Professor Heidi Larson (London School for Tropical Hygiene and Medicine), Gabriel Leung (Dean of Medicine, University of Hong Kong), Francisca Mutapi (University of Edinburgh), Professor Michael Parker (University of Oxford), Basil Rodrigues (UNICEF) and Professor Nelson Torto (Permanent Secretary, Botswana Government) for their valuable feedback and input. The team wishes to thank experts who gave valuable insights to help shape the questionnaire development and testing process, and many of those topics were included in the final questionnaire: Jeremy Farrar, Mike Ferguson, Mark Henderson, Chonnettia Jones, Carla Ross, Jim Smith, Beth Thompson, Charlie Weller and Ed Whiting from Wellcome. Further thanks are extended to Peta Bell, Marianne Dear, Petra Essing, Tom Freeman, Richard Kindell, Emma Palmer, Lindsay Pentelow, Ilesh Persand and Lucy Sillito for help with the design and production of the report.

Cover image: Melanie, March 2020 Johannah Churchill I am a nurse as well as a photographer. I took this portrait of my colleague Melanie back at the start of the pandemic as she was making preparations for the opening of a local Covid clinic. It is taken in Wandsworth where we both worked together.