University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna Capturing the COVID-19 Crisis through Public Health and Social Measures Data Science In response to COVID-19, governments worldwide are implementing public health and social measures (PHSM) that substantially impact many areas beyond public health. The new field of PHSM data science collects, structures, and disseminates data on PHSM; here, we report the main achievements, challenges, and focus areas of this novel field of research. en TEXT article COVID-19; Data Science; Humans; Public Health; SARS-CoV-2; Social Sciences 2022 2022 Cheng, Cindy (Technical University of Munich) Zweig, Sophia Alison (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) Howes, Alexandra Hale, Thomas (University of Oxford) Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (University of Oxford) Desvars-Larrive, Amélie (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) Zhang, Yuxi (University of Oxford) Zapf, Alexander John (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) Xu, Hanmeng (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) Petherick, Anna (University of Oxford) Penson, Steve Nika, Angeliki Messerschmidt, Luca (Technical University of Munich / University of Oxford) Lehner, Lukas (University of Oxford) Nature Portfolio