The Canadian Centre for Disease Modeling (CDM) together with the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology (CSMB) has launched a weekly distinguished lecture series, “Mathematics and COVID-19”, which is co-organized by faculty at AARMS member universities. The series includes 16 distinguished speakers examining how mathematics can contribute to the understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and inform public health policy decision making. For details of upcoming speakers please see the CDM website.