Over the past 60 years, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has successfully coordinated the research needs for over 800 universities and research institutes. This work has led to the ongoing use of secondary data, the development of innovative lines of research, and the training of multiple generations of scholars across the fields of social and behavioral sciences. The role of the social sciences in understanding major health challenges and disasters has expanded rapidly over the past several decades, and ICPSR in partnership with the Institute for Social Research (ISR) has played a key role in offering an infrastructure to support this work. New areas and new directions have emerged (e.g., population health, social determinants of health, health equity, growth of longitudinal studies, and complex national population-based surveys). ICPSR has been able to bring together and share cutting-edge research emerging from cross disciplinary collaborations in a systematic manner using an open science model of information distribution. Since 1962, ICPSR has been a keystone in developing research infrastructures, promoting synergy and efficiency, and maximizing the effectiveness and impact of the research development. This is achieved through the functions of the ICPSR Consortium model, which serves as the nexus of communication, streamlining information-sharing across the behavioral and social science community, multiple NIH Centers, and to the public. ICPSR has acted as the primary coordinating center for research support, data distribution, education, and research best practices since the concept of data sharing first emerged. This proposal builds on the successful model instituted by the ICPSR Consortium to create a new independent Coordinating Center for COVID related research, with all the advantage of established connections, significant substantive expertise, and an established infrastructure on which to build and expand. The new Coordinating Center will expand its substantive purview to include resources and support specific to COVID-19. To maximize the growth of cross-disciplinary research, its mission will also expand to promote collaborative work between the funded U-01 projects, NIH Research Centers, and a multidisciplinary research community each with different missions, cultures, and ethos. A major thrust of effort will be on supporting early-career investigators to embark on collaborations across NIA Centers. Lastly, the Coordinating Center will work with experienced partners to produce dissemination materials with broad appeal that aggregate and synthesize research findings from the U01 projects and other critical research materials emerging from NIH investments in COVID-19 research.